Accidents and Incidents
- On 26 June 1978 all 18 crew and passengers on Sikorsky died when it crashed 87 nautical miles (161 km) northwest of Bergen, probably because the rotor loosened from the rotor head.
- On 1 March 1988 a Super-Puma helicopter had to perform a controlled emergency landing on a cargo ship 100 nautical miles (190 km) west of Egersund. No one was hurt.
- On 16 July 1988 a Super-Puma helicopter had to perform an emergency landing in the North Sea. Everyone was picked up by another helicopter.
- On 18 January 1996 the Super-Puma helicopter registered LN-OBP was forced to perform an emergency landing in the North Sea some 200 kilometers south-west of Egersund. All passengers survived and the helicopter was still floating 3 days later. Subsequently the remains of the helicopter went for rebuilding by the students at the aviation technical school at Sola, Norway
- On 8 September 1997 the AS332 L1 Super-Puma registered "LN-OPG by Helikopter Service, while flying from Brønnøysund to the Norne oil field suffered a catastrophic main gearbox failure and crashes killing all 12 aboard. Eurocopter accepted some but not all of the AAIB/N recommendations. Eurocopter's reply can be found in Appendix F to the report (page 265 in the pdf).
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