Helicopter crashes off the Norwegian Coast With 13 People On Board

Helicopter has crashed in West of Bergen City, Norway early this day.

There were 13 people on board when the helicopter crashed while returning back from Gullfaks B oil platform, North West sea.

According to the reports, there were no survivors who’d been found yet.

A Eurocopter 225 has been identified, which just came down to the small island of Tureoy, west of Solsvik village.

The rescue team included divers, firefighters, and medical workers, are currently looking for the two people who are still missing.

Witnesses told told reporters they have seen the plane’s rotor blade removed and loose.

“There was an explosion and a very peculiar engine sound, so I looked out at the window.  saw the plane falling quickly into the sea. Then I saw a big explosion”, a resident  from Bergensavisen told the local newspaper.

“The helicopter is completely destroyed”. “Rescue services are doing all they can to find people alive.”, according to the Rescue Coordination Centre for Southern Norway’s spokesperson.

Eleven of them were passengers and the other two are crew on-board, according to Statoil, operator of the platform.

“We have not yet found any survivors. We are still looking”, said Morten Kronen, the local police official coordinating operations, told Reuters.

Wreckage were found on parts of the sea, according to the local media.

All of the passengers were workers of Statoil, reporters said.

CHC H3licopter confirmed that has been “an incident involving one of out aircraft in the Norwegian sector”.

Through Norwegian broadcasters NRK and TV2, TV pictures were showed live and large amount of smoke was rising in the area, where the it was clearly pictured – having been totally damaged.

Norway’s second largest city, Bergen, where helicopters are frequent in the west, coming back and forth from oil factories – and traffic is already a normal thing.