Offshore Industry: Helicopters

(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many helicopter journeys in the offshore energy sector were aborted due to a mechanical problem in each quarter since Q1 2013l and what mode of helicopter was involved in each such incident.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 27th January 2016

The number of Mandatory Occurrence Reports received by the Civil Aviation Authority in relation to aborted helicopter journeys due to a mechanical problem in the offshore energy sector, alongside the type of aircraft, is set out in the following table:

Aircraft

2013

2014

2015

Type

Qtr1

Qtr2

Qtr3

Qtr4

Qtr1

Qtr2

Qtr3

Qtr4

Qtr1

Qtr2

Qtr3

Qtr4

AS332

1

3

4

2

2

2

2

2

3

0

1

0

AS350

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

AS355

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

AS365

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

AW139

0

0

0

0

3

4

2

4

2

2

0

0

EC135

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

EC225

0

0

0

3

2

6

3

2

5

6

1

2

S76

0

0

1

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

S92

3

1

3

5

9

3

6

3

4

4

4

3

Total

5

4

9

11

16

15

17

12

14

12

6

6


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