on Tuesday sent helikopterprodusenten Sikorsky out a so-called “alert service bulletin” about that all helicopters of the type P-92 must be inspected before the next flight.
the Background is an event on the scottish side of the north Sea in romjulen, where a helicopter cut a hole on the helicopter deck during an emergency landing.
In Norway this affects the traffic to and from the platforms, informs the media relations Morten Eek in Statoil.
– It will have the effect that we shift all the flights to the inspection is carried out. We estimate that it will take a few days to all our helicopters are reviewed, he says to E24.
At one point were all the helicopters sitting on the ground, according to NRK.
It is the vendors that perform the inspection. They are already started. We are happy that they do this type of inspections to ensure that the helicopters are safe and well-examined.
Update clock 15.12: Helikoptertrafikken from the Sun have started up again. The first flight happened 14.30, writes Stavanger Aftenblad.
Cut a hole
the Incident that led to the inspection happened on the helicopter deck to the platform West Franklin outside Scotland.
A helicopter from the company CHC Helicopters should, according to a witness have “spun uncontrolled” when it attempted to make an emergency landing on the platform, type bransjenettstedet Oil and Gas People.
According to another witness should the rotor blades have cut holes in the platform.
There were eleven people on board when the incident happened. None of them come to harm in the incident.
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According to Eek, there are no indications that there have been some errors with some of the 13 helicopters of this type that can fly for Statoil.
Eek may not specifically disclose how many of the flights that are postponed on Tuesday, but says that there is talk about a larger number.
– When the entire tilbringerflåten is included, there is a significant number of people being affected. We have around 40 flights each day. And each of these helicopters, take 19 passengers plus crew.
He said Sikorsky helicopter in Brønnøysund has already been carried out the inspection, and the inspection is in progress in Bergen.
DAMAGE: the Damage to the helicopter deck was clear after the incident in romjulen.
– the Reason why this takes time is that it takes special tools to do this, ” says Eek.
Prevention
communications advisor Elisabeth Skarsbø Moen in Companies that speak out on behalf of the helikopterselskapet CHC in Norway, confirms that the event in romjulen is the reason that the helicopters must now be inspected.
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Sikorsky has sent out a message on the background of the event, that all the helicopters of this type must undergo inspection. It is a preventive measure, she says.
It affects the implementation of the flyprogrammet, ” says Skarsbø Moen, who can’t say exactly how long the helicopters will be on the ground.
It worked now with a plan for the implementation of the inspection and we’ll come back with more information about the time the lesion when it is ready.
She emphasizes that the helicopters are considered to be reliable and secure.
CHC is one of the two helikopteroperatørene as Statoil on the Norwegian continental shelf. The other is Bristow.
There was a CHC-helicopter of the type of Super Puma that crashed on Turøy, outside Bergen last spring. 13 people lost their lives.
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