Bond Offshore Helicopters Flight 85N · United Kingdom
On April 1, 2009, Bond Offshore Helicopters Flight 85N (United Kingdom). 16 people died.
- Date
- April 1, 2009
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Operator
- Offshore Helicopter Services
- Killed
- 16
- Position
- 57.554°N, 0.000°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q4613375
From Wikipedia
Just before 2:00 pm on 1 April 2009, Bond Offshore Helicopters Flight 85N crashed 11 nautical miles (20 km) north-east of Peterhead, Scotland in the North Sea while returning from a BP oil platform in the Miller oilfield, 240 km (150 mi) north-east of Peterhead. The crash killed all sixteen people aboard. The flight was operated using a Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Mk 2 belonging to Bond Offshore Helicopters. The cause of the crash was main rotor separation following a catastrophic gearbox failure.
Text from Wikipedia, “Bond Offshore Helicopters Flight 85N”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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