Cougar Helicopters

Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax.

Services

Sikorsky S-92 landing at Ilulissat Airport, Greenland.

Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the:

Hibernia Field
Terra Nova Field
White Rose Field
Hebron-Ben Nevis Field
Deep Panuke Field

Fleet

Cougar Helicopter, St. Johns, NL

Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of heavy helicopters:

Sikorsky S-92

Incidents and accidents

On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board perished in the crash.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Oil industry helicopter carrying 18 crashes into Atlantic Ocean". CBC News. 12 March 2009.
↑ No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash (update 5). Reuters, 12 March 2009
↑ CADORS report for Cougar Helicopters (CHI91)

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