Heliport
8th Jul 2003, 14:39
Two crew and three oil workers died when an S-76 crashed in the Atlantic on Saturday.
The accident happened about 70 miles off the port of Macae, 115 miles northeast of Rio De Janeiro.
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The helicopter crashed and sank in 3000ft of water as it tried to land on an oil tanker.
Stolt Offshore, said yesterday: "The rotor hit an antenna on the ship and then broke off. The helicopter crashed and sank very quickly."
A spokesman for BHS who operated the helicopter told Associated Press "The helicopter was trying to land on a Petrobras oil platform when its back rotor broke off, causing it to topple into the sea."
Petrobras divers found the wreckage of the helicopter and the bodies of the pilot, co-pilot and three passengers at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 820m.
Operations to recover the bodies, including Ken Ward, a computer expert from Aberdeen , were under way on Sunday with the help of the Brazilian Navy.
Old Man Rotor
8th Jul 2003, 21:53
Another quiet and tragic loss of colleagues.............
Please post [By PM if necessary] the names of the crew once their names are released.
A quiet thought for them all.............
Translated from Portugese by Babelfish, so apologies for the translation.
Accident in the Basin De Campos Helicopter tries landing, loses the control and falls in the sea.
The five people had on board died Sabrina Netto
transport of employees A helicopter that carried oil tankers to the P-33 platform, of the Petrobras, fell in high sea, the 110 kilometers of the coast, to 13h30 of yesterday, killing two members of the crew and three passengers.
The company believes that the aircraft can have beaten with the tail in the mast of the ship Toisa Mariner - boat for operations of diving, anchored in the Field of Marlim, in the Basin De Campos. The pilot, commander Cláudio Belloni, the copilot Miranda Landmarks de Souza - both of company BHS -, beyond Cesar You mark of Oliveira, employee of the Petrobras, Juliano Alves Da Silva, of the Mycom, and Kenneth Ward, of Stolt Offshore s.a., had not been found until 21h of yesterday. The helicopter was located the 820 meters of depth. In the end of the afternoon of yesterday, technician of the Petrobras studied the best form to remove the aircraft of the sea.
In accordance with the company, the Navy and the Aeronautics had authorized the operation of rescue of the victims and hoisting of the helicopter. Today, a team of the Department of Aviação Civil (DAC) will have to visit the place to investigate accuses to it accident to them. The Body of Firemen of Macaé was not set in motion.
As witnesses who worked in other platforms, at least 10 helicopters and trawlers with divers of the Petrobras had participated of the operation. The S76 helicopter, PT-YVM prefix, with capacity for 14 passengers, was of company BHS, who divulged note lamenting the accident and informing that the aircraft passed constantly for maintenance and obeyed the security norms. The BHS has 11 aircraft that they carry through transports between platforms for the Petrobras. At least 40 a thousand engineers, technician and laborers fly in helicopters the service of the company, responsible for 84% of the national production of oil.
The S76 had left the heliport of the Lighthouse of Is Tomé, in Fields. according to Petrobras, the aircraft carried through landings in diverse platforms for landing of passengers, but, to if approaching to the Toisa Mariner, the tail rotor collided with the ship, making the pilot to lose the control and the aircraft to fall of peak in the sea. The helicopter would have sunk in three minutes. In Brasilia, the minister of the Mines and Energy, Dilma Rousseff, said that she goes to follow the inquiries on the accident. Considered transport safe Description of the accidents in the region [ 06/JUL/2003 ]