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The April 2009 North Sea helicopter crash involved a Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Mk 2 belonging to Bond Offshore Helicopters, engaged on flight 85N, that crashed northeast of Peterhead, Scotland just before 2:00 pm on 1 April 2009 in the North Sea while returning from a BP oil platform in the Miller oilfield, northeast of Peterhead.〔 〕 The crash killed all sixteen people aboard.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 The helicopter was flown by Captain Paul Burnham and co-pilot Richard Menzies, both working for Bond Offshore Helicopters.〔 〕 Most of the victims were employees of KCA Deutag Drilling. Bond also operated a very similar Eurocopter EC225LP helicopter which crashed in the North Sea on 18 February 2009, in which all 18 aboard escaped and were rescued.〔 The most serious previous North Sea helicopter accident had been the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash, when a Boeing 234 Chinook crashed killing 45 people. ==Recovery== The search for survivors was called off on the evening of 2 April, rescuers admitting that there was no chance of finding anyone alive, and the ''Vigilant'' returned to Peterhead on 4 April. The 8 bodies found a few hours after the crash were taken to Aberdeen and on to a police mortuary. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) chartered the seismic survey vessel ''Vigilant'' for its initial investigation, which arrived on site on 3 April, carrying specialised sonar equipment to locate the wreckage on the seabed. The aircraft was thought to be lying in approximately 90 metres of water, but as of 3 April the exact location was not known. No EPIRB beacon signal had been reported. Grampian Police stated on the evening of 4 April that they had identified all the bodies. One of them, Nolan Goble, was the brother of former professional footballer, Steve Goble. A second vessel, the Diving Support Vessel ''Bibby Topaz'', was chartered to assist the work, and sailed from Peterhead on 4 April, to attempt to recover the wreckage and the cockpit voice and flight data recorders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=BBC News )〕 The wreckage of the Super Puma was subsequently located on the sea bed in by the ''Bibby Topaz''. The remaining eight bodies were recovered from inside the fuselage. The combined FDR/CVR was recovered and sent to the Farnborough headquarters of the AAIB for analysis, as was all the wreckage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2009 Bond Helicopters Eurocopter AS332 crash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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