LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying staff working in the oil industry crashed Friday in the North Sea off the British Shetland Islands .
Four passengers - three men and a woman were killed . The Super Puma L2, manufactured by Eurocopter , a subsidiary of EADS , carrying 16 passengers and two crew members.
The aircraft was operated by CHC Helicopter on behalf of the French oil company Total .
The operator CHC , which suspended all flights to Aberdeen city on the east coast of Scotland which serves as rear base for oil in the North Sea , refused to speculate at this stage on what have caused the accident.
The helicopter lost contact with air traffic control and crashed into the sea on the approach to Sumburgh Airport , on the coast of Shetland , a windswept located more than 160 km from the tip archipelago north of Scotland .
The mother of a survivor has told Sky News: " My son told me that the unit has , apparently , lost power (...) They are simply fell in sea view . sitting near a window , he could happily escape . "
Scottish police said that three bodies had been recovered and a fourth was on the verge of being. According to Sky News , the fourth body is still in the wreckage of the Super Puma.
In April 2009 , the 16 occupants -14 passengers and two pilots , another Super Puma were killed when the helicopter had crashed off Peterhead , on the east coast of Scotland, from platform of BP " Thousand " . (Jean- Loup Fiévet for the French service)
Four passengers - three men and a woman were killed . The Super Puma L2, manufactured by Eurocopter , a subsidiary of EADS , carrying 16 passengers and two crew members.
The aircraft was operated by CHC Helicopter on behalf of the French oil company Total .
The operator CHC , which suspended all flights to Aberdeen city on the east coast of Scotland which serves as rear base for oil in the North Sea , refused to speculate at this stage on what have caused the accident.
The helicopter lost contact with air traffic control and crashed into the sea on the approach to Sumburgh Airport , on the coast of Shetland , a windswept located more than 160 km from the tip archipelago north of Scotland .
The mother of a survivor has told Sky News: " My son told me that the unit has , apparently , lost power (...) They are simply fell in sea view . sitting near a window , he could happily escape . "
Scottish police said that three bodies had been recovered and a fourth was on the verge of being. According to Sky News , the fourth body is still in the wreckage of the Super Puma.
In April 2009 , the 16 occupants -14 passengers and two pilots , another Super Puma were killed when the helicopter had crashed off Peterhead , on the east coast of Scotland, from platform of BP " Thousand " . (Jean- Loup Fiévet for the French service)