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| Date: | Monday 2 January 1984 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bell 212 |
| Owner/operator: | Maersk Air |
| Registration: | OY-HMC |
| MSN: | 30864 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 22nm E of the Dan-B Offshore Inslallation, North Sea -
 Denmark
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Offshore |
| Departure airport: | EKEB Esbjerg Airport |
| Gorm Field offshore | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Impacted the sea with a high nose up attitude during a storm, one hour into the flight, after a failure of the tail rotor drive quill spline coupling. The aircraft capsized and floated inverted for about 10 minutes. The two pilots and one passenger died.
Sources:
Hamburger Abendblatt 3.1.1984
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1282780
Departure and destination corrected by Transport Manager, Maersk Oil, 2014.
WAAS
CAP1144
https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/NPA%202016-01.pdf (see Section 7)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 29-Apr-2011 16:28 | TB | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Jun-2014 14:46 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Sep-2014 20:09 | Anon. | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, ] |
| 17-Apr-2016 17:23 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
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