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Two pilots, six workers survive after chopper crashes into sea off Bintulu

  
MIRI: Two pilots and six Petronas Carigali workers survived after their helicopter crashed into the sea off Miri while enroute to an offshore platform on Thursday.

The helicopter was transporting them to the platform located some 92 nautical miles off the northern Sarawak gas capital of Bintulu.

It encountered problems before it could land and crashed into the sea.  The eight were rescued by platform crews and those from passing vessels. 

It is learnt that the pilot and co-pilot suffered injuries and have been sent to the hospital.

Bintulu police chief Supt Madang Asat confirmed that a police report had been lodged over the incident and the maritime police have started a probe. 

JAN 2007
peta loaksi kejadian
Peta lokasi kejadian helikopter terhempas dekat Bintulu (gambar dr koleksi peribadi Spy Leman)
(Berita Harian) KUCHING: Sebuah helikopter terhempas di perairan Laut China Selatan, kira-kira 80 kilometer (km) di luar pantai Bintulu semalam menyebabkan seorang pekerja pelantar minyak hilang.Bagaimanapun, sembilan lagi termasuk krew pesawat L2 Super Puma milik Malaysian Helicopter Services (MHS) itu, terselamat.
Mangsa yang hilang, dikenali Irwan Saslas Aini Salihin, 26, juruteknik D-Tech Sdn Bhd, dipercayai tenggelam bersama bangkai pesawat itu.
Pengarah Wilayah Jabatan Penerbangan Sarawak, Huang Tiong Poh. berkata pihaknya menerima laporan pesawat itu terputus hubungan dengan menara kawalan dan hilang pada kira-kira jam 2.40 petang.
Helikopter itu, yang bertolak dari Lapangan Terbang Miri, kira-kira jam 1.08 tengah hari menuju ke pelantar minyak di perairan Bintulu, mulanya membawa 16 penumpang termasuk dua krew.
Ia selamat mendarat di pelantar minyak Bayan Balingian D35 dan menurunkan enam pekerja sebelum berlepas semula ke pelantar B18 di medan Bayan A untuk penghantaran seterusnya.
Bagaimanapun, pesawat berkenaan dilaporkan hilang kira-kira jam 2.40 petang. Berikutan itu, gerakan mencari dan menyelamat dilakukan menggunakan helikopter milik MHS dan Shell Bhd yang berpangkalan di Miri.
Huang berkata, helikopter berkenaan dikesan pasukan mencari dan menyelamat, kira-kira jam 5 petang.
Petronas pula dalam kenyataannya berkata, sehingga petang semalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat mangsa yang hilang masih diteruskan.
Syarikat itu menjelaskan, pesawat dengan lapan penumpang dan dua juruterbang itu terhempas kira-kira 80 km di luar pantai Bintulu, kira-kira jam 2.30 petang, tidak lama selepas bertolak dari sebuah pelantar minyak menuju sebuah lagi pelantar.
Enam daripada penumpang pesawat itu ialah kakitangan Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, manakala dua lagi bekerja dengan kontraktor yang dilantik syarikat itu.
Sementara itu, di Terminal MHS di Lapangan Terbang Miri, keluarga mangsa berkerumun untuk mendapatkan maklumat mengenai kejadian itu tetapi tidak dibenarkan masuk.
Ramai yang kecewa dan pulang selepas dimaklumkan mangsa yang selamat dihantar ke Hospital Bintulu untuk rawatan.
Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia melaporkan, ketika kejadian keadaan laut di perairan Sarawak bergelora dengan angin kencang bertiup dari arah timur laut selaju 50 hingga 60 km/j dan laut berombak setinggi tiga sehingga 4.5 meter.




Another Nightmare with MHS (Malaysian Helicopter Services)

Posted in : General, Oil & Gas News, Safety Health & Environment

MHS is building client’s ‘CONFIDENCE’ !
(Source NST) KUCHING: For the second time in three months, a helicopter en route to an offshore oil facility has crashed into the sea, this time off Bintulu.
A 26-year-old technician remains missing while seven others and the Super Puma L2’s two pilots were rescued in choppy waters about 40km out in the South China Sea yesterday.
The high seas drama started when the transport helicopter, chartered by PetronasCarigali and operated by Malaysian Helicopter Services Sdn Bhd (MHS), crashed in bad weather on its way to the B18 platform in the Bayan Balingian oilfield.Seven of the eight passengers and the two pilots were found by two Petronas rescue vessels sent from Miri but there was no trace of Irwan Fasla Aini Salihin as of Press time.The survivors have been sent to the Bintulu Hospital for observation.Fasla Aini is a technician with Dettech (M) Sdn Bhd, a Petronas contractor from Miri involved in maintenance work on the unmanned B18 mini-platform.
It is understood the twin-engined aircraft experienced technical problems while on its landing approach and risked crashing into the platform.
Sources told the New Straits Times that the helicopter was minutes away from the platform when the pilot announced an “emergency” and ditched the aircraft.
“Such emergency procedures are standard practice and those who are required to fly to oil platforms must undergo such safety courses.
“Shortly before ditching the aircraft, the pilot had prepared the passengers for a crash landing at sea.
“The missing passenger might have been swept away by strong currents or he might have failed to get out of the helicopter before it sank,” the source from Bintulu said.
Department of Civil Aviation regional director Huang Tiong Poh said the helicopter was initially carrying 16 passengers heading to platforms D35 and B18.
“The helicopter departed from Miri airport at 1.08pm heading to the D35 oil platform to drop off eight passengers and was heading towards the B18 mini-platform when it lost contact with the control tower in Kota Kinabalu at 2.40pm.
“The copter never reached B18,” Huang said, adding that a search and rescue operation was immediately mounted by MHS, Petronas and Shell teams from Miri and Bintulu.
According to the Meteorological Department, sea conditions at the crash site were stormy with wind speeds of between 40 to 60 kilometres per hour, and waves of up to 4.5 metres.
A brief Petronas statement confirmed the ditching of the aircraft, that one passenger was missing and search and rescue operations were still going on.
MHS and Petronas officials declined further comment.
Federal Marine Police chief Senior Assistant Commissioner II Datuk Jalaludin Abdul Rahman said search and rescue operations were launched three hours later, after police were informed of the incident by Petronas Carigali officials in Kuala Lumpur.
“We immediately alerted our marine base in Sarawak which despatched PA29 speed-boats to the scene. By that time a Petronas Carigali tugboat had already picked up the nine survivors, who were then transferred to our boats.”
Jalaludin said owing to failing light, police would continue search and rescue operations today with the assistance of scuba divers and additional boats.
“If need be, we will summon the assistance of other agencies to find the missing person and recover the wreckage of the helicopter for the investigating team,” he said.
Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Kok Soo Chon said a probe team was being assembled to investigate the cause of the crash.
Yesterday’s crash was the fourth in just over a year involving helicopters belonging to MHS.
On Nov 5 last year, 20 men were plucked from the sea after the Super Puma helicopter they were in, which was chartered by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, went down near an oil rig.
The co-pilot, Ismail Bakar, 43, was among those rescued but pilot Captain Mohd Salleh Teguh from Johor perished in the crash.
The helicopter was believed to have developed technical problems while approaching the company’s Tapis B platform, about 103 nautical miles off Dungun in Terengganu. It crashed at 11.45am.
The helicopter had taken off from the Kertih Airport in Kemaman an hour earlier.
On Feb 23, the engine of a Super Puma helicopter caught fire as it was about to take off from Miri airport.
All the 14 oil rig workers and the pilot were unhurt.
On June 18 last year, a similar helicopter crashed in the South China Sea while flying to the B11 oil platform off Bintulu. There were no casualties.

chopper sedang dikeluarkan dr air
Bangkai Super Puma yang terhempas di pelantar D18 dekat Bintulu semasa usaha mengeluarkannya dijalankan (gambar dr koleksi peribadi Spy Leman)
Second Copter Crash in Three Months
Firdaus Abdullah; Dennis Wong; Adrian David
The New Straits Times
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

For the second time in three months, a helicopter en route to an offshore oil facility has crashed into the sea, this time off Bintulu.

A 26-year-old technician remains missing while seven others and the Super Puma L2's two pilots were rescued in choppy waters about 40km out in the South China Sea yesterday.

The high seas drama started when the transport helicopter,
chartered by Petronas Carigali and operated by Malaysian Helicopter Services Sdn Bhd (MHS), crashed in bad weather on its way to the B18 platform in the Bayan Balingian oilfield.

Seven of the eight passengers and the two pilots were found by two Petronas rescue vessels sent from Miri but there was no trace of Irwan Fasla Aini Salihin as of Press time.

The survivors have been sent to the Bintulu Hospital for observation.

Fasla Aini is a technician with Dettech (M) Sdn Bhd, a Petronas contractor from Miri involved in maintenance who worked on the unmanned B18 mini-platform.

It is understood the twin-engined aircraft experienced technical problems while on its landing approach and risked crashing into the platform.

Sources told the New Straits Times that the helicopter was minutes away from the platform when the pilot announced an "emergency" and ditched the aircraft.

"Such emergency procedures are standard practice and those who are required to fly to oil platforms must undergo such safety courses.

"Shortly before ditching the aircraft, the pilot had prepared the passengers for a crash landing at sea.

"The missing passenger might have been swept away by strong currents or he might have failed to get out of the helicopter before it sank," the source from Bintulu said.

Department of Civil Aviation regional director Huang Tiong Poh said the helicopter was initially carrying 16 passengers heading to platforms D35 and B18.

"The helicopter departed from Miri airport at 1.08pm heading to the D35 oil platform to drop off eight passengers and was heading towards the B18 mini-platform when it lost contact with the control tower in Kota Kinabalu at 2.40pm.

"The copter never reached B18," Huang said, adding that a search and rescue operation was immediately mounted by MHS, Petronas and Shell teams from Miri and Bintulu.

According to the Meteorological Department, sea conditions at the crash site were stormy with wind speeds of between 40 to 60 kilometres per hour, and waves of up to 4.5 metres.

A brief Petronas statement confirmed the ditching of the aircraft, that one passenger was missing and search and rescue operations were still going on.

MHS and Petronas officials declined further comment.

Federal Marine Police chief Senior Assistant Commissioner II Datuk Jalaludin Abdul Rahman said search and rescue operations were launched three hours later, after police were informed of the incident by Petronas Carigali officials in Kuala Lumpur.

"We immediately alerted our marine base in Sarawak which despatched PA29 speed-boats to the scene. By that time a Petronas Carigali tugboat had already picked up the nine survivors, who were then transferred to our boats."

Jalaludin said owing to failing light, police would continue search and rescue operations today with the assistance of scuba divers and additional boats.

"If need be, we will summon the assistance of other agencies to find the missing person and recover the wreckage of the helicopter for the investigating team," he said.

Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Kok Soo Chon said a probe team was being assembled to investigate the cause of the crash.
Yesterday's crash was the fourth in just over a year involving helicopters belonging to MHS.

On Nov 5 last year, 20 men were plucked from the sea after the Super Puma helicopter they were in, which was chartered by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, went down near an oil rig.

The co-pilot, Ismail Bakar, 43, was among those rescued but pilot Captain Mohd Salleh Teguh from Johor perished in the crash.

The helicopter was believed to have developed technical problems while approaching the company's Tapis B platform, about 103 nautical miles off Dungun in Terengganu. It crashed at 11.45am.

The helicopter had taken off from the Kertih Airport in Kemaman an hour earlier.

On Feb 23, the engine of a Super Puma helicopter caught fire as it was about to take off from Miri airport.

All the 14 oil rig workers and the pilot were unhurt.

On June 18 last year, a similar helicopter crashed in the South China Sea while flying to the B11 oil platform off Bintulu.

There were no casualties.

(C) 2007 The New Straits Times. via ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved

super puma diletak atas deckBangkai helikopter Super Puma sedang diletakan diatas dek kapal selepas dikeluarkan dari dasar laut dekat Bintulu (gambar dr koleksi peribadi Spy Leman)


Body of Missing Oil Worker Found Offshore East Malaysia
Xinhua News Agency
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The body of a male worker, who remained missing after a helicopter carrying 10 people crashed offshore East Malaysia's Sarawak State, was found on Wednesday, Malaysia's national oil company Petronas said.

"His body will be brought back to Bintulu for post mortem by the authorities. His next of kin has been informed by Petronas," the company said in a statement released here.

Petronas earlier said that a Super Puma L2, owned and operated by Malaysian Helicopter Services Sdn Bhd (MHS), ditched into the sea at about 2:30 pm on Tuesday, some 80 km offshore Bintulu, a coastal town in Sarawak.

It was carrying two pilots and eight workers aboard and transferring the workers among Petronas's oil rig platforms when the incident happened.

The other nine people aboard the helicopter survived,including the two pilots.

The dead worker was reportedly aged 22. The authorities concerned were investigating the cause of the incident.

Copyright 2007 XINHUA NEWS AGENCY.

Regards,
RAD

super puma atas deckBangkai helikopter Super Puma sedang diletakan diatas dek kapal selepas dikeluarkan dari dasar laut dekat Bintulu.(gambar dr koleksi peribadi Spy Leman)


                                                                           5 NOV 2006

20 men were plucked from the sea after the Super Puma helicopter they were in, which was chartered by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, went down near an oil rig.

The co-pilot, Ismail Bakar, 43, was among those rescued but pilot Captain Mohd Salleh Teguh from Johor perished in the crash.

The helicopter was believed to have developed technical problems while approaching the company's Tapis B platform, about 103 nautical miles off Dungun in Terengganu. It crashed at 11.45am.

The helicopter had taken off from the Kertih Airport in Kemaman an hour earlier.

super puma sdg berlepas
Sebuah Helikopter Super Puma sedang berlepas dari Pelantar Minyak Tapis B Di Terengganu (Gambar Koleksi Peribadi Penulis)
Bangkai helikopter Super Puma yang terhempas berhampiran Tapis B Teremggamu sedang diangkat keluar dari dasar laut 

Bangkai helikopter Super Puma yang terhempas berhampiran Tapis B Teremggamu sedang diangkat keluar dari dasar laut dan diletakkan diatas kapal sokongan

Bangkai helikopter Super Puma yang terhempas berhampiran Tapis B Teremgganu diatas kapal sokongan untuk dibawa balik kedarat.


Entri ini adalah sambungan dari entri no
44-nahas-helikopter-bah-1 dan
45-Terselamat nahas Helikopter
Misi Menyelamat boleh diikuti dalam entri no
12-Chopper Crash Recovery bah 1.
13-Chopper Crash Recovery bah 2.
14-Chopper Crash Recovery bah 3.


12 comments:

Main reason for fatality is drowning ke? coz body of the heli seems intact? Isn't it compulsory to wear life vest on board? Any incident of hypothermia?

Mangsa yg terkorban dlm kejadian ini dipercayai mati lemas atau kemungkinan semasa mula2 terhempas mangsa telah pengsan terlebih dahulu kerana semasa mayatnya dikeluarkan mangsa masih berada ditempat duduknya dgn talipinggang keselamatan masih terpasang,atau safety beltnya jammed tak dpt dibuka atau mangsa panik semuanya boleh berlaku tetapi adalah disahkan yg mangsa mati lemas.

memang semua penumpang diwajibkan memakai life vest.

setakat ini tiada kejadian hiportermia diair Malaysia kerana laut kita airnya suam.

thanks for the detailed explanation :-D

you`re welcome....anytime babe...

tak sabar menunggu next entry... kisah2 penyelam offshore... :)

Anonymous-kalau tak sabar pun kena sabar jgk....

kalau x silap yg meninggal tu 1st time ke laut kan? tugas pertama dia and he died.. org kuala baram kalau x silap..

T-ara Arzeillia-Saya jugak dgr begitu yg mangsa yg terkorban br pertama kali ke offshore...

sedihnya bca insiden melibatkan chopper ke offshore ni...teringat suamiku..semoga selamt sentiasa...


Pn faizah,

InsyaAllah selamat.
Doakan yg terbaik dan bersangka baik selalu InsyaAllah..

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sedihnya memikirkan husband yg berada disana..

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