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A French Army AS332 Super Puma, 1999 Interior of a Finnish Border Guard H215, 2024 The Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma is a medium-sized utility helicopter, powered by a pair of Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turboshaft engines, which drive the rotorcraft's four-bladed main rotor and five-bladed tail rotor along with a pair of independent hydraulic systems ...
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A further Super Puma owned by Bond Helicopters is involved in a second North Sea ditching on 1 April 2009. 12 March – A Sikorsky S-92 helicopter ( C-GZCH ) flying from St. John's International Airport , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to the offshore SeaRose FPSO in the White Rose oil field was forced to ditch in the North Atlantic Ocean ...
The wreckage of the Super Puma was located on the sea bed at a depth of 100 m (330 ft) by the Bibby Topaz. The remaining eight bodies were recovered from inside the fuselage. The combined FDR/CVR was recovered and sent to the Farnborough headquarters of the AAIB for analysis, [1] [13] as was all the wreckage. [14]
On 23 August 2013, a Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopter belonging to CHC Scotia crashed into the sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, while en route from the Borgsten Dolphin drilling rig.
During this manoeuvre, the third helicopter, also a Super Puma, approached the landing zone, carrying the pilot, an engineer, and 13 officers. This third aircraft also raised a large cloud of snow from the ground while landing, causing the pilot to lose sight of the marshalling officer on the ground.
The Oryx is an upgraded and remanufactured version of the Puma, being basically equivalent to the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma, and offers a performance improvement over the original model, in addition to reducing the operating costs by 25 to 30%. Early examples were fitted with the latest dust filters, as were then in use on the SAAF Puma ...
5 EH-96 Puma. 1 comment. 6 Sources. 1 comment. 7 Gearbox cracking problem. 4 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma/Archive 1. Add ...