Not again! Chopper ditches in North Sea

[James B]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/797...

I hope all are ok.

James

[MrCippo]

afraid its true, just heard about it at work..s**it!

[VetteG]

No mayday from chopper, alarm raised by a standby vessel who saw it go down, they have sent there fast recovery boats to the scene, 16 people on board!

G

[Allandwf]

Lets hope all ends up well , again ! I'm still offshore and this was the first I heard about it .

[HowMuchLonger]

Bond to BP miller: Hope all involved are okay.

[asbo]

I've just been bombarded by emails from the other helicopter operators to say it isn't one of theirs.

So much for camaraderie

Fingers crossed for those on board.

[AliV6]

All 16 have been accounted for. Not sure on their current state tho. 3 of our boys were onboard.

[James B]

AliV6 said:

All 16 have been accounted for. Not sure on their current state tho. 3 of our boys were onboard.

lets just hope this is the usual Guardian scaremongering!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/helico...

[M1KEY]

Just heard about this - hope everyone involved is OK.

[foz01]

confirmed as very bad news

[AliV6]

BP have just announced that they cannot verify the number recovered....WTF, they said 20mins ago 16 recovered! Now it's 8 bodies recovered on the news.

fkin operators.

[ARphotography]

Just heard as well, really bad news

hope everyone is ok,

wonder why it went down.

Adam

[AliV6]

How on earth the press know...BP haven't even told us the details yet.

[BckFlash]

10 dead and 6 missing on Sky news now

Apparently a mayday was made then silence....

Another dark day

[a11y_m]

Not good at all

Radio news just saying there 16 dead. Hope that's not right.

[Stu R]

a11y_m said:

Not good at all

Radio news just saying there 16 dead. Hope that's not right.

Hope it's not the case but it's certainly sounding like it

[asbo]

RIP. Very sad.

[hollowpockets]

Yep their all tatties, not a good day... i'm due to fly by Bond to the Miller on friday.
If my memory serves me right the wednesday flight is the kca drill crewchange flight, the last 3 trips i've done there have been working with the drill crew...

[BEN66]

Not good. My mate was flying out today.

[boardinscotland]

Very scary. Thoughts go out to the families.