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The fallout from Friday’s deadly crash of an Airbus Group SE helicopter widened Monday as investigators begin analyzing black box data that could explain the cause of the accident.
Bristow Group Inc. on Monday said it would ground some EC225 helicopters in Australia, after regulators in Norway and the U.K. barred passenger flights with the model.
The company said it was suspending flights of six of its EC225 helicopters in Australia, but that three others used for search-and-rescue operations would continue to be used. In Norway and the U.K., where Bristow has a number of the helicopter’s registered, the model has also been grounded for emergency operations.
On Friday, an EC225 flown by CHC Helicopter Services crashed while flying to Norway’s Bergen Airport from Statoil AS A’s Gullfaks B oil field, killing all 13 people onboard. The cause of the accident is still unknown.
Norway’s air accident investigators said Monday that data from the combined flight data and cockpit voice recorder had been extracted. “The data is of good quality and is sent back to Norway for analysis,” the Accident Investigation Board Norway said. The U.K. Air Accident Investigations Branch extracted the information.
The rotor appears to have separated from the helicopter, a highly unusual occurrence.