Was die Aufzeichnungen sagen
- Wann
- 16. Juli 1983
- Art
- Flugunglück
- Koordinaten
- 49.92° N, 6.25° W
- Description
- 1983 aviation accident in the southern Celtic Sea
- Deaths
- 20
British Airways Helicopters Flight 5918
Accident in the southern Celtic Sea
On 16 July 1983, British Airways Helicopters Flight 5918, a British Airways Helicopters commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter, Oscar November (G-BEON), crashed in the southern Celtic Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, while en route from Penzance to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in poor visibility. Only six of the twenty-six people on board survived. It was Britain's worst civil aviation helicopter accident at the time.
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