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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: 16 feared dead in North Sea helicopter crash AFP - Thursday, April 2 LONDON (AFP) - - Sixteen people were feared dead Thursday after a helicopter transporting them from an offshore oilfield crashed off the northeast coast of Scotland. ADVERTISEMENT Rescuers retrieved eight bodies from the North Sea after Wednesday's crash but eight people remained missing after the search was called off at 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) -- eight hours after the helicopter went down. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said late Wednesday that the outlook for the missing was "extremely bleak". About 15 vessels had been combing the area for survivors, but the search was called off until dawn on Thursday. "We can confirm that eight bodies have been recovered from the North Sea after a helicopter came down around 35 miles (56 kilometres) off the coast of Crimond," police said in a statement Wednesday. "The remaining eight persons are unaccounted for," they said. Oil giant BP said the helicopter was operating on its behalf. Carrying 14 passengers and two crew, it had been flying from the Miller oilfield, about 270 kilometres off the Scottish coast, back to the mainland when it crashed. It went down just before 2:00 pm (1300 GMT), the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said. Salmond expressed shock and sadness at the accident, telling reporters in Aberdeen: "Eight bodies have been recovered and I am afraid to say the outlook for the other eight people involved is extremely bleak." He said the North Sea provided "enormous riches, millions, billions of pounds" in oil and gas. "But it's incidents like this that remind us that there is another price, and that's the price in human life, which has been played out over the years," he said. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sent a private letter of condolence to the families of the victims, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said. A BP spokesman said the firm was working closely with the coastguard and had put in place all its emergency response systems. The Super Puma helicopter was operated by offshore aviation firm Bond, which was not immediately available for comment. Another helicopter operated by the firm also went down in the North Sea with 18 people on board in February, although no one was injured. An official report into that incident found a warning system which would have told pilots they were close to the water in foggy conditions had failed to sound. Salmond said it would be "foolish to speculate" on what caused Wednesday's crash but said it was "catastrophic". A spokeswoman for Scotland's emergency services said late Wednesday that it was unlikely someone could survive in the sea for much longer, even wearing special suits as the missing were. Aberdeen Airport is one of the world's busiest heliports and dozens of flights serve the oil platforms off from the airport every week. The Super Puma has been involved in a number of incidents over the past 20 years. Eleven men were killed in February 1992 when a Super Puma taking oil workers from Shell's Cormorant Alpha platform to a nearby barge crashed into the sea immediately after takeoff, 100 miles northeast of Shetland. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World World leaders seek an agreement on the economyAP - 1 hour 20 minutes ago Israel FM rules out any withdrawal from GolanAFP - 1 hour 22 minutes ago UK-World SummaryReuters - 1 hour 23 minutes ago WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama visits Queen ElizabethAP - 2 hours 1 minute ago Hawaii pursues Navy over reef damage from warshipAP - 2 hours 58 minutes ago Enlarge Photo A map locating where the Super Puma helicopter crashed in the North Sea. At least eight people died when a helicopter carrying 16 people from an offshore oilfield crashed off the northeast coast of Scotland on Wednesday, police said. Most Popular – World Viewed Hot tea linked with throat cancer Global recession pushing millions into poverty US home prices 'in record freefall' Guantanamo 'soooo beautiful!' Miss Universe says French workers hold managers at Caterpillar View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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