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16 Feared Dead After Helicopter Ditches off Scotland

Submitted by nuklear on April 2, 2009 – 5:31 amNo Comment

A super Puma helicopter carrying 16 people crash landed into the North Sea of northeast Scotland on Wednesday.helicopter ditches off scotland The search for survivors is being carried out on Thursday and there have been about 8 bodies recovered thus far from the chopper crash.

The chopper crashed at about 13 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire of the North Sea. Thursday efforts will concentrate more on recovering the helicopter wreckage from sea and then find out if the other 8 were trapped alive and rescue them by all means.

The wreckage might also give a clue or two on the reasons for the crash of Super Puma as because these choppers have the black box flight recorders that record all that had happened before crash.

The Super Puma was returning from Miller Platform, which is a drilling operation in the North Sea.

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