Helicopter crash: Super Puma pilot's last words in desperate Mayday call revealed The last desperate message from the helicopter that crashed into … Court / Inquiry into Sumburgh helicopter crash finally gets under way. A seven-year wait for a fatal accident inquiry into a helicopter crash which killed four people off Shetland has been described as "deplorable" by the Sheriff Principal who will oversee it. A SHERIFF launched a scathing attack on the legal system for forcing families to wait a “deplorable” seven years for an inquiry into a North Sea helicopter tragedy. A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into a North Sea helicopter crash that killed four people is to be held remotely so no more time is lost. The incident happened about 11:30 a.m. in a wooded area off Highway 130 and Alalii Road. The wreckage of the Super Puma L2 helicopter on 23 August 2013. 0 Copied!

Contributed. On 29 April 2016, a CHC Helikopter Service Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter, carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B platform in the North Sea, crashed near Turøy, a Norwegian coastal island 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the city of Bergen.

The sentence was decided by the judge and a five-person RAF panel. Survivors of a helicopter crash that killed four people are expected to give evidence at a fatal accident inquiry (FAI), a court has heard. 29 January 2020 19:47. The £20m Puma helicopter crashed in a field on 8 August 2007. Fatal Accident Inquiry - Super Puma Helicopter Crash Summary of FAI Determination into the deaths of 16 people following the helicopter crash on 1 April 2009. The earlier court martial was held at Bulford in Wiltshire. TWO RAF officers died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan after pilots were unable to land on a football pitch because people were playing on it.

The North Sea helicopter crash in which 16 people died was caused by a 'catastrophic failure' in part of the aircraft's main gearbox, according to an initial report. On Wednesday 1 April 2009, a Super Puma helicopter, owned by Bond Offshore Helicopters Limited, was flying over the North Sea, en route from the Miller Oil Platform to Aberdeen, when it plunged into the sea killing all 16 people on board.

A FATAL accident inquiry will be held into the Super Puma helicopter crash off Shetland that claimed four lives – with the announcement coming nearly six years after the tragedy occurred.