Main rotor blades and hub reportedly detached in flight, and a video online purports to show this subsystem spinning down to earth. The remainder of the helicopter descended at high rate, impacting rocky ground with 13 fatalities on impact and being consumed in the post-impact fire. The helicopter was being operated for Statoil, and en route from the Gullfaks B platform to Bergen Airport
- Date
- April 29, 2016
- Reg
- LN-OJF
- Make
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS332
- MSN
- 2721
- Location
- Turøy just west of Sotra, near Bergen
- Country
- Norway
- CivilMilitary
- Civil
- Fatal
- 13
- Operator
- CHC
- Link 1
- http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Helikopterstyrten-ved-Turoy-i-Hordaland---direkteblogg-8450661.html
- Link 2
- http://www.aibn.no/About-us/Nyhetsarkiv/The-Helicopter-Accident-The-work-continues
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