The entire crew and passengers of a helicopter are feared to have perished in a crash when it came down in the North Sea while transporting oil workers and contractors from BP’s Miller oilfield to Aberdeen. The Bond Super Puma helicopter crashed on Wednesday 1 April. Eight bodies from the crash have already been recovered and it is feared that there will be no survivors. Some of the passengers are believed to have been from drilling contractor, KCA Deutag. BP has announced that it has stopped using Bond helicopters on a temporary basis and Cheltenham-based Bond has grounded its Super Puma fleet.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) will be inspecting the scene of the crash. There is no indication at present as to the cause of the crash which comes only weeks after another Bond Super Puma helicopter crashed into the North Sea, again while transporting workers from the BP oilfield. Thankfully on that occasion there were no fatalities.
Leigh Day & Co solicitors has experience of acting in helicopter and aviation crashes, including those occurring overseas, and has recently been instructed by several widows of RAF servicemen who died when the Hercules aircraft in which they were flying in Iraq crashed after coming under enemy fire in January 2005.
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