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Britain / 31 March 2019
Offshore workers demand full public inquiry into helicopter safety
The wreckage of the Super Puma L2 helicopter which went down in the North Sea with the loss of four lives on August 23, 2013
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OFFSHORE workers have demanded a full public inquiry into poor helicopter safety on the tenth anniversary of the Super Puma helicopter tragedy today.

Sixteen people were killed when a Bond Super Puma plunged into the water off the Aberdeenshire coast on April 1, 2009.

The main cause of the crash was a breakage in the helicopter’s main gear box.

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