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Deadly North Sea helicopter crash near Shetland caused by pilot error

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North Sea helicopter crash which claimed four lives, an inquiry has found. A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) found that all the safety barriers in place did not manage to prevent or remedy the pilot's "one failure" to maintain the correct speed as it approached Sumburgh Airport in Shetland.

Two crew members and 12 passengers on the Super Puma L2 survived when it ditched on its approach to the airport at 6.17pm on August 23, 2013.

But Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Moray; Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness; Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, County Durham, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester, Hampshire, died.Survivor Samuel Bull took his own life in London in 2017, which Sheriff Principal Pyle said was "directly caused" by the crash.An.

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