Helicopter given green-light to fly less than 24 hours before North Sea accident
ByNiamh Burns
A helicopter was cleared to fly less than 24 hours before it crash-landed on a North Sea platform and spun through 180 degrees.
Damage to the CHC-operated Sikorsky S-92s tail rotor was missed during an inspection before it left Aberdeen to head to an accommodation module in Total’s Elgin field.
And during a shuttle flight to the West Franklin platform three miles away it suffered equipment failure which would have “seriously” affected the ability of flight crews to maintain control of the helicopter”.
