Taken from KATC TV3 Lafayette Louisiana
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A passenger was killed and three other people were injured after their helicopter crashed while trying to land on an offshore platform on Friday, officials said.
The Omni Aviation helicopter crashed sometime before 2 p.m. about 40 miles south of Morgan City in the Gulf of Mexico, said Darcy Klug, executive vice president of Omni Aviation.
Klug said the circumstances of the fatality were unclear. He said weather conditions were not ideal, with choppy seas and some gusts.
Looks like 2004 won't have quite as many accidents as 2003 but still a bad year, remember the ERA S76A++ earlier this year? The NTSB has found no mechanical reason for that one so looks like it may be down to the crew again.
Let's hope 2005 will be fatality free in the GoMEX
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