1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash

Quando

16 de jul. de 1983

Tipo

Desastre aéreo

Coordenadas

49.92° N, 6.25° W

Description

1983 aviation accident in the southern Celtic Sea

Deaths

20

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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