Hey all, I'm making another book that's related to aviation.
This time its about notable plane crashes from around the world that didn't make it into my plane crashes from around the world book, but these accidents and incidents deserve some attenti...
These notable plane crashes/ helicopter crash take us to the country of Scotland which is located north of England.
WARNINGS OF PLANE CRASHES AND A HELICOPTER CRASH
A/N: Now to move onto Australia
Number 1- 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash
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Pictured above is the helicopter involved in the crash, photographed in 1982.
On the 6th of November 1986, a Boeing Vertol Model 234LR Chinook, registered as Golf- Bravo Whiskey Foxtrot Charlie (G-BWFC), helicopter returning workers from the Brent oilfield crashed on approach to land at Sumburgh Airport (IATA: LSI, ICAO: EGPB) in the Shetland Islands, at 2.5 miles (4.0 kilometres) from the runway the helicopter had a catastrophic forward transmission failure which caused the tandem rotor blades to collide, the helicopter crashed into the sea and sank, fourth three passengers and two crew members were killed in the crash; one passenger and one crew member survived the crash with injuries.
The helicopter was normally based at Aberdeen Airport (IATA: ABZ, ICAO: EGPD) but had been based at Sumburgh Airport since the 3rd of November 1986 to operate a shuttle service from the Brent oilfield in the East Shetland Basin, on the 6th of November the first flight was delayed due to an oil leak from an engine gearbox that was soon rectified and the aircraft left Sumburgh at 08:58am with 40 passengers for the Brent Field, the aircraft visited three platforms with exchanges of freight and passengers then departed Brent Platform C at 10:22am with 44 passengers on board for the return to Sumburgh Airport, it transited at a height of 2,500 feet (800 metres) and as it approached Sumburgh it was cleared to descend to 1,000 feet (300 metres), reporting 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometres) from the airfield, the controller cleared it to land on helicopter Runway 24, nothing else was heard.
The voice recorder indicated that the crew noticed an increased noise level in the flight deck followed by a bang, despite applying full cyclic pitch control, the helicopter didn't respond and fell towards the sea from a height of 150 feet (50 metres), the helicopter was largely broken up by the clashing rotor blades in mid air, hit the sea and quickly sank, a Coastguard search and rescue Sikorsky S-61 helicopter which had just departed Sumburgh Airport on a training flight reported life rafts in the sea, it then observed a survivor clinging to a substantial piece of wreckage, while they winched the man on board another survivor was noted among the floating bodies, with no signs of other survivors the Coastguard helicopter flew the survivors to Lerwick for transfer to hospital, an air and sea search failed to find any more survivors but all the floating bodies were recovered and brought to the airport, one of the flight crew and the flight attendant were among the dead.
