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| Date: | Monday 9 July 1973 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Sikorsky S-61N-II |
| Owner/operator: | Helikopter Service |
| Registration: | LN-OQA |
| MSN: | 61466 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 17 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | North Sea -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Offshore |
| Departure airport: | Gulf Tide Offshore Installation |
| Stavanger/Sola | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Vibrations 40 minutes into flight. Lost tail rotor. Ditched and capsized. Rescuers arrived one hour later. Wreck sold to Carson Helicopters as N82772 and rebuilt to flying conditions. Later flown for Court Helicopters as ZS-HRU.
Sources:
flightglobal.com
helis.com
WAAS
http://www.psa.no/magazine/suited-for-safety-article11639-1182.html
Netherlands national archive: press photo of the crashed helicopter: http://proxy.handle.net/10648/84d9cb4d-d0eb-2010-a57c-3a100e354374
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 September 1992 | ZS-HRU | Court Helicopters | 0 | 150km off off Cape Town on MV Darya Shubh |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Dec-2009 07:51 | TB | Added |
| 21-Dec-2012 11:11 | TB | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, ] |
| 09-Aug-2014 17:20 | Aerossurance | Updated [Total occupants, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Nov-2015 14:37 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Nov-2015 14:55 | Aerossurance | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, ] |
| 01-May-2021 11:15 | Hoekb03 | Updated [Source, ] |
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