Super Puma brought ashore for air accident investigation

The investigation into the ditching of a Bond helicopter in the North Sea will start in earnest today.

The £17.6million Super Puma was brought ashore yesterday by diving support vessel Seven Pelican.

It will be taken by road to Farnbourgh in Hampshire where the Air Accident Investigation Branch will carry out a detailed “root cause” probe.

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