UK Super Puma flights grounded after fatal Norway helicopter crash

Apr 30, 2016, 09:30 AM

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All UK commercial passenger flights using the Airbus EC225LP helicopter have been grounded by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) following a fatal crash in Norway. The UK CAA's decision to ground all commercial Super Puma flights by UK operators comes after four people died when one crashed in the North Sea in August 2013, while 16 lives were lost in an accident in April 2009.

Gordon Craig - is the Chaplain for Oil and Gas UK - he supported families affected by a similar Super Puma crash off the coast of Shetland in 2013: