- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | July 16, 2002 |
Time: | 1945 |
Location: | Off Cromer, Norfork, England |
Operator: | Bristow Helicopters |
Flight #: | - |
Route: | Gas platform Clipper - drilling rig Golbal Sante Fe Monach |
AC Type: | Sikorsky S-76A |
Registration: | G-BJVX |
cn / ln: | 760100 |
Aboard: | 11 (passengers:9 crew:2) |
Fatalities: | 11 (passengers:9 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The helicopter was ferrying workers from a gas rig to a oil platform in the North Sea when it crashed into the water at high speed, 28 miles northeast of Cromer. The helicopter was at a height of 320 ft. flying in a south-easterly heading when one of the rotor blades failed. The accident was caused by a broken rotor blade, caused by fatigue, brought about by a lightning strike three years earlier. |
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