Safety Flash
Super Puma helicopter accident – initial report
Super Puma helicopter accident – initial report
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 06/09
- Helicopter and Aviation
- Helicopter operations
- Helicopter
- Marine waters
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Summary
This safety flash announces the AAIB’s initial report on a Super Puma helicopter accident in the North Sea. It highlights the potential relevance elsewhere of information about gearbox monitoring and warning systems on the helicopter type, without providing accident findings or technical details.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Summary
The UK Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) has issued its initial report into the recent Super Puma helicopter accident.
IMCA SF 06/09. Themes: helicopter and aviation.