Safety Flash
MSF: Near-miss – Supply vessel in path of helicopter making approach to platform
MSF: Near-miss – Supply vessel in path of helicopter making approach to platform
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/15
- Helicopter and AviationMarine OperationsSimultaneous Operations
- Helicopter operationsMarine operations
- Helicopter
- Marine industry
Summary
This safety flash relays a Marine Safety Forum near-miss involving a helicopter approaching a fixed installation. The aircraft abandoned its approach because a supply vessel occupied the go-around and take-off flight path. The supplied account identifies the conflicting vessel position but provides no detailed corrective measures.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Summary
The Marine Safety Forum has published the following safety flash regarding an incident in which a helicopter aborted an approach to a fixed installation because a supply vessel was positioned inside the ‘go around’ and take-off flight path.
IMCA SF 03/15. Themes: helicopter and aviation, marine operations, simultaneous operations.