Date:	Thursday 18 January 1996
Time:	08:45 LT
Type:	Aérospatiale AS 332L1 Super Puma
Owner/operator:	Helikopter Service
Registration:	LN-OBP
MSN:	2308
Year of manufacture:	1990
Engine model:	Turbomeca Makila
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 18
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	North Sea, 40nm SW Sola -   Norway
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Offshore
Departure airport:	Stavanger
Destination airport:	Offshore inslallations
Investigating agency:	AIBN
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Ditched (in winds 25-30 kts, waves 3-4m [Sea State 5]) after vibrations caused by erosion of a main rotor blade leading edge strip that peeled open in-flight.

On contract to BP Norge.

Capsized overnight as wave height increased to 7-8m (Sea State 7). Sank at 17:00 on 19 Jan. Salvaged 27 Jan and became instructional airframe at Sola

Norwegian Civil Aircraft since 1919 / K. Hagby, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 2 7)
https://www.aibn.no/Luftfart/Rapporter/1998-02-eng

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Mar-2008 13:00	ASN archive	Added
12-Feb-2010 00:19	TB	Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Narrative, ]
12-Feb-2010 10:05	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
13-Jun-2010 13:18	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
16-Aug-2014 20:15	Aerossurance	Updated [Narrative, ]
17-Aug-2014 10:07	Aerossurance	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
13-Jun-2016 19:59	Aerossurance	Updated [Location, Source, ]
30-Jul-2019 08:00	Aerossurance	Updated [Source, ]
23-Oct-2023 18:33	harro	Updated