The Sidney-based parent firm of the helicopter company that recently lost a Sikorsky S-92A chopper and its crew confirmed this week that defective gearbox studs had not been replaced. Cougar Helicopters is a subsidiary of Vancouver Island Helicopter Aviation Group, based at Victoria International Airport. On March 12th, one of Cougar’s choppers carrying oil [...]
GATINEAU, QUEBEC — The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada have found a broken main gearbox filter bowl assembly mounting stud in the wreckage of the Cougar Helicopter Sikorsky S92A that crashed off St. Johns, Newfoundland, on March 12, killing 17 people. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. issued an Alert Services Bulletin (ASB) on Jan. 28, [...]
By Bradley Bouzane, Canwest News Service Recovery crews off the coast of Newfoundland have started to retrieve bodies from the crash site of a helicopter crash that claimed 17 lives. One body was recovered from the site Sunday, which leaves 15 others unaccounted for following the Thursday’s crash that happened as the Cougar Sikorsky [...]
OTTAWA — “The likelihood of finding survivors is no longer there” and the search for the 16 missing passengers of the helicopter crash off Canada’s Atlantic coast will end Friday evening, officials said Friday. The announcement comes more than 30 hours after a chopper heading to an oil platform crashed into icy waters off [...]
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