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Helicopter blade just missed oil rig worker after it broke during high winds, investigation finds

A helicopter blade narrowly missed an oil rig worker after it broke whilst they tried to secure the aircraft to a helipad during high winds, an investigation has found. The Airbus H175 helicopter had ...
Aviation Week

Oil rig helicopter crashes off Ghana's coast

Reuters has reported that a service helicopter carrying workers to an oil rig off the coast of Ghana operated by Russia's Lukoil crashed into the ocean on Thursday, killing at least three people, a ...
KEYT

Coast Guard helicopter medevacs platform worker with severe chest pains from offshore oil rig Friday

PLATFORM HERITAGE, Calif. – A man working on Platform Heritage off the southern coast of Santa Barbara County was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew after experiencing severe ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Illinois guard sending helicopter to oil cleanup

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | The Illinois National Guard is sending a helicopter and crew to help with efforts to clean up oil leaking from an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The guard said Wednesday that ...