• On 4 April 1967,
5N-ABQ, a
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer Series 1, crashed in Nigeria during a single engine approach. • On 13 August 1981,
G-ASWI, a
Westland Wessex 60 helicopter lost power to the main rotor gearbox, going out of control during the ensuing
autorotation. The flight was carrying 11 gas workers from the Leman gas field to
Bacton, Norfolk. All people on board were lost. • On 14 September 1982,
G-BDIL, a
Bell 212,
crashed into the North Sea near the Murchison oil platform while on a nighttime search and rescue mission. • On 4 July 1983,
G-TIGD, an Aerospatiale AS332L Super Puma crashed on landing at Aberdeen. During the approach to Aberdeen from the North Hutton platform, a loud bang was heard, followed by severe vibration. A PAN call was made to ATC by the crew. Shortly before landing control was lost and the helicopter struck the runway heavily on its side. 10 of 16 passengers received serious injuries. A tail boom panel had become detached in flight and damaged all five tail rotor blades. The resulting imbalance to the tail rotor assembly led to the separation of this unit and subsequent loss of control. • In 1984,
G-BJJR, a Bell 212, crashed with the loss of two crew on approach to the Cecil Provine. • On 5 December 1991,
VR-BIG, an Aerospatiale SA-330J Puma, ditched in
Mermaid Sound,
Dampier, Western Australia, after a pick-up from departing
LNG tanker in night VFR conditions, entered a vortex ring state. After ditching, it stayed afloat for over two hours. • On 14 March 1992,
G-TIGH, a Bristow's Tiger (Aerospatiale Super Puma), lost altitude and crashed while ferrying passengers from the Cormorant Alpha to the flotel Safe Supporter. Of the two crew and 14 passengers on board, one crew member and ten passengers were lost. • On 19 January 1995,
G-TIGK, an AS-332L Super Puma helicopter on
Bristow Flight 56C between Aberdeen and oil rigs in the North Sea, was struck by lightning. The flight was carrying 16 oil workers from Aberdeen to an oil platform at the Brae oilfield. All people on board survived. • On 16 July 2002,
G-BJVX, a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Norwich-based Bristow Helicopters,
crashed into the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport. The 22-year-old helicopter was flying at an altitude of about when workers on the Global Santa Fe Monarch heard "a loud bang". Witnesses watched the rotorcraft steeply dive into the sea; one also reported seeing the helicopter's rotor head with rotor blades attached falling into the sea after the body of the helicopter had impacted. The accident caused the death of all those on board (two crew members and nine Shell workers as passengers). The body of the eleventh man was never recovered. • On 22 November 2006,
G-JSAR, a Eurocopter Super Puma SAR ditched in the North Sea. G-JSAR was operated from
Den Helder Airport in the Netherlands on behalf of oil companies. All on board survived uninjured. • On 12 August 2015,
5N-BGD, a Sikorsky S76C+ returning to Lagos from an offshore rig with ten oil workers crashed into the Lagos lagoon close to the long third mainland bridge, the longest of three bridges connecting the Lagos mainland to the Island. The helicopter was five minutes away from landing at the Muritala Muhammed airport in Lagos. Four oil workers and the two crew died while six others were rescued alive. helicopter of the
UK coast guard, operated by Bristow Helicopters, arrives at the 2018
RIAT, England ==In popular culture==