OSLO: A helicopter carrying six folks crash landed within the ocean off the coast of western Norway on Wednesday, and all these on board have been later hoisted from the ocean, the nation’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centres mentioned. Haukeland College Hospital, the area’s largest, mentioned it had acquired all six sufferers from the accident however that their medical situation was unclear in the intervening time. The helicopter belonged to Bristow Norway, the corporate’s nation supervisor, Heidi Wulff Heimark, informed each day Stavanger Aftenblad. Power group Equinor mentioned the helicopter was a search and rescue plane usually serving platforms on the firm’s Oseberg oil and fuel area within the North Sea. The helicopter was a Sikorsky S-92 mannequin and was on a search and rescue coaching mission on the time of the accident, a police spokesperson informed reporters, including it was too early to say what had induced the crash. “We are aware of the incident and stand ready to support the investigative authorities and our customer. Safety is our top priority,” mentioned a spokesperson for Sikorsky, a unit of Lockheed Martin. The realm had been experiencing excessive winds on the time of the accident, a rescue service official informed broadcaster TV2. Air site visitors information confirmed a number of rescue helicopters circling within the air close to an island west of Bergen, Norway’s second greatest metropolis and a busy hub for the Norwegian offshore oil and fuel business. In 2016, an Airbus Tremendous Puma helicopter coming back from the North Sea crashed in roughly the identical space, killing all 13 folks aboard. The accident led to the suspension of the usage of that sort of helicopter by the Norwegian oil and fuel business.
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