Disasters and Accidents - North Sea Oil Rig Chinook Helicopter Crash

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9 November 1986

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Lerwick Scotland

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Trainee technician Eric Morrans, 20, from Kintore, Grampian, with his parents Maureen and Joseph in Gilbert Bain Hospital in the Shetlands, one of the two survivors of the giant Chinook helicopter crash into the North Sea minutes from Sumburgh Airport, killing 45 oil rig workers going home for the weekend.

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