Martyn said:

Been at work since seven and still a bit to go. Ready for ma bed lol

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msb89 said:

7? I was in Thurso at 7, having got up at 3am, and driven there!!

Im with you tho bud

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In Martyn's bed?

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I must admit, I was getting worried when I read that..

oh hardy har har.....................

No shiney parts arriving. Boo.

Got the onset of the cold / flu, caught from my sister last weekend sneezing everywhere >.<

Another chopper ditching... hope all 18 get out safe and well, 15 so far... 3 to go, not looking good tho.

Heres hoping!

The 3 are still missing according to various news websites which is not good Horrendous for the families and friends involved and horrible for all those working or connected to the industry

Horrible about the chopper is it the same ones that were taken off service because of previous ditchings? that model has to be removed from service if so for good, **** modifications, extra checks etc

Unfortunately so.

Last year, two helicopters ditched in the North Sea only six months apart. All passengers and crew were rescued in both incidents which were found to be caused by gearbox problems.
In October, 17 passengers and two crew were rescued from life rafts by a passing vessel after the helicopter, which was carrying an oil crew from Aberdeen to a rig 86 miles north-west of Shetland, was forced to ditch.
Previously, in May 2012 all 14 passengers and crew members on a Super Puma helicopter were rescued after it ditched about 30 miles off the coast of Aberdeen.
The helicopter was on a scheduled flight from Aberdeen airport to a platform in the North Sea at the time.
Super Puma EC 225s were grounded in the wake of the two incidents but were given approval to fly again and services resumed earlier this month.
In April 2009, 16 people died when a Super Puma plunged into the sea. Its gearbox failed while carrying the men to Aberdeen.
The Bond-operated aircraft was returning from the BP Miller platform when it went down off the Aberdeenshire coast.

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Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23821083

As you say, to **** with modifications. It's about time the Super Pumas were weighed in, enoughs enough.

Unfortunately four folk on last nights helicopter weren't so luck

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23822420

3 dead, 4th believed dead, but body not found

All found now, 15 went to hospital, one didnt make it, 3 bodies pulled from water..

God bless their souls

Sad to hear about the lives lost in the latest chopper tragedy

Get those helicopters scrapped. Now.

They can modify them all they want, nobody is going to have confidence in them, it's beyond bad that so many have lost their lives in them, but it's also not fair on those that have to use them in future or their families having to go through the worry whether they are up to the job and the latest "fixes" will work.

**** that. Get them gone.

They're grounded for now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23829107 hopefully it's made permanent. Yes it's going to cause chaos within the industry but better a wee bit of disruption to working patterns now than more loss of life.

These incidents resonate strongly up here as it's almost impossible to live in this area and not have friends or family who go offshore in helicopters - our own Stuarty being one of them when he's not being sent to Nigeria. There's a lot of black humour about the job but whenever a chopper goes down it's a tense time while you wait to find out if someone you know was on board.

So yeah, ground those bloody things now and don't risk more lives

hangovers... ****in hangovers....... that is all, last night we raised a glass to those we lost, R.I.P.


Oh and lost the bidding on the car by £20 with 3 seconds to go

Harper said:

So yeah, ground those bloody things now and don't risk more lives

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There is actually a facebook page been made, campaigning for those choppers to be scrapped.

If you want to, you can "like" the page here, & show your support:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destroy-the-Super-Pumas/649173595095243

I have followed that page already but at the blunt end of it, it will make no difference whatsoever, even if the manufacturers (Eurocopter) go out of business over this, whoever takes them over will just start churning them out again! The Super Pumas are in service all over the world, but its only North Sea that we hear of them going down, you never hear of the Sikorsky S92 ditching... and they do go down from time to time as well, its a maintenance issue IMHO, Norway have just as much of these things as the Uk but only have had one ditching in comparison to our 5 or 6, WHY? its nothing different apart from maintenance... whether the times are tighter over here are different I dont know, and im not having a go at the mechanics and engineers that do the work, they can only pish with the cock they've got!!

I've just read over on bbc news that the Helicopter Safety Steering Group is made up of oil industry representatives but with no further information on which part of the industry they come from. The cynic in me says they answer to the money part...

So, are maintenance corners being cut? Would be interesting to get engineers from say Aberdeen and Norway in the same room and compare what they're told to do