Mid-Atlantic Helicopter Crash
March 12th, 2009
I am sure by now it is no new news that a Cougar helicopter with eighteen souls on board when down on the Grand Banks today. The Helicopter reported an unknown malfunction and issued a mayday as it headed back for St. John’s The helicoptor went down 37 minutes later. One confirmed dead, one currently inintensive care for hypothermia and a broken bone, and the other sixteen missing.
The men, all wearing survival suits which give them about 24 hours in the frigid North Atlantic waters, were all on their way to the oil fields off Newfoundland’s shores.
As of 6:00 Newfoundland Time the search and rescue operation is ongoing.
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