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Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C was a helicopter flight that flew between Aberdeen and the Brae Alpha oil rig in the North Sea. On 19 January 1995, the AS 332L Super Puma helicopter operating the route, registered G-TIGK and named Cullen , was struck by lightning.
G-BJVX, a Norwich-based commercial Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Bristow Helicopters, crashed in the evening of 16 July 2002 in the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport.
The large petroleum reserves under the North Sea have been exploited since 1965. The Treasure Finder semi-submersible accommodation platform supported a number of offshore oil rigs and normally carried a group of four Bell 212 support helicopters for inter-rig transfers of passengers and freight and medical evacuation. [2]
1981 Bristow Helicopters Westland Wessex crash This page was last edited on 17 February 2021, at 06:21 (UTC). Text ...
G-ASWI was a Westland Wessex 60, operated by Bristow Helicopters operating between Bacton Gas Terminal, in Norfolk, and Amoco gas platforms in the North Sea.On 13 August 1981 the helicopter lost power to the main rotor gearbox, going out of control during the ensuing autorotation.
On Tuesday, United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell helicopter operator Bristow Group up to 26 S-76D helicopters for use in ...
1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash; 1981 Bristow Helicopters Westland Wessex crash; 2002 Bristow Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A crash; C. CHC Scotia Flight 23R; H.
And in April 2023, two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters returning to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, after a training flight collided, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth, ...