Helicopter accident off Sotra 2024
Unknown · The helicopter accident off Sotra took place on 28 February 2024 at around 19.40 local time
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
Unknown
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The helicopter accident off Sotra took place on 28 February 2024 at around 19.40 local time. A Sikorsky S-92 helicopter from Bristow Norway crashed into the sea two nautical miles west of Løno in Øygarden Municipality, Vestland. One woman employed by Equinor died, while five Bristow employees were injured.
The accident
The helicopter that crashed was a rescue helicopter leased to Equinor and was conducting training missions prior to the accident, with six people on board. The helicopter hit the water from a relatively low height and with little force. The hull's flotation elements did not deploy, so it sank to a depth of 220 metres.
Signals from the crashed helicopter's and a personal emergency locator beacon made it possible to locate it. One of 330 Squadron's SAR Queen rescue helicopters, which was on a training mission west of Sola when the accident took place, arrived after around 50 minutes and hoisted five people up from the sea. Medical assessments and a shortage of fuel then meant that the rescue helicopter had to fly to Haukeland University Hospital.
A helicopter from Florø arrived at the accident site 25 minutes later and hoisted up the sixth and last person from the sea.
After the accident, the operators on the Norwegian continental shelf chose to suspend all flights to and from installations on the shelf until 1 March 2024 in order to gain the necessary overview.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Norwegian Wikipedia article “Helikopterulykken utenfor Sotra 2024” (revision 25664997, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Norwegian Wikipedia article: Helikopterulykken utenfor Sotra 2024
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 25664997 · 2026-02-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q124737713
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- no Wikipedia article "Helikopterulykken utenfor Sotra 2024" (page 2177340, revision 25664997), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The Bristow S-92 was a helicopter leased to the oil company Equinor on a training mission, a helicopter service for hire in the offshore sector. The article: "The helicopter that crashed was a rescue helicopter leased to Equinor and was conducting training missions prior to the accident"
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Norwegian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.