FAI results offer family of woman โno closureโ
The family of a north-east woman who died in the Sumburgh helicopter tragedy say they have received โno closureโ from the results of the fatal accident inquiry.
The family of a north-east woman who died in the Sumburgh helicopter tragedy say they have received โno closureโ from the results of the fatal accident inquiry.
Pilot error led to a fatal helicopter crash off Shetland, the northโs most senior sheriff has ruled.
Pilot error ultimately led to a helicopter crash off Shetland and the death of four passengers, a fatal accident inquiry was told on its final day yesterday.
A senior pilot has told a court that the crew of a helicopter which crashed in the sea off Shetland had not complied with the standard operations regarding airspeed as they prepared to land.
Pilots can lose concentration when their aircraft is put into autopilot, according to an expert witness at the Shetland helicopter tragedy fatal accident inquiry.
Ultimate responsibility for the safety of offshore workers on a doomed Super Puma helicopter which crashed into the sea off Shetland lay with the chief pilot, a fatal inquiry has heard.
The co-pilot of the helicopter which crashed off Shetland was praised for his โquick-thinkingโ in deploying flotation bags to keep it afloat and allow passengers to escape.
A survivor of the horror Shetland helicopter crash โ in which four people died, and a fifth later committed suicide โ spoke of how submersive training he undertook in Norway was โmuch more rigorousโ than the UK equivalent.
A heroic survivor of a horror helicopter crash has told how โtraining kicked inโ to enable him to escape from the submerged chopper in the ocean โ then went on to attempt to save another passenger.
The grief-stricken pilot of a doomed helicopter which crashed off Sumburgh killing four oil workers has told a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) how his โworld endedโ that day.
A fatal accident inquiry will begin today โ virtually โ into the tragic circumstances of a helicopter crash off Shetland in 2013.
Families of those killed in a helicopter crash off Shetland will be handed transcripts at the end of each day of evidence heard โvirtuallyโ at a fatal accident inquiry in a bid to allay fears of any potential technological problems.