Super Puma Against The Weather | Helicopter Down | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster

On January 19, 1995, a Super Puma carrying 16 oil workers set off on a 146-mile journey from the Scottish city of Aberdeen, bound for Marathon Oil's Brae B platform. They never made it. With 40 miles to go, their helicopter flew into a cloud and hail started streaming into the plane through every vent. A gigantic flash of lightning knocked the helicopter out of the sky causing the pilots to struggle to stay airborne which meant they had to crash land into the heaving sea. Unfortunately, one life raft was unusable therefore all 18 scrambled aboard the other which was now overloaded. The jagged edges of the helicopter punctured the inflatable raft which began to sink. By a miracle, a fellow pilot in another helicopter managed to spot them in the heaving ocean and hovered over to them and directed rescue ships to the scene. The pilots were astonished to find that their account of what had happened was simply not believed and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea. Want to see more ocean crashes? Watch them all here: https://bit.ly/33ntOOb From Season 3 Episode 7 "Helicopter Down": On January 19, 1995, Super Puma flew into a storm with a gigantic flash of lightning knocking the helicopter out of the sky and causing the pilots to struggle to stay airborne and ending up crashing into the heaving sea. By a miracle, a fellow pilot managed to spot them in the heaving ocean and directed rescue ships to the scene. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster YouTube Channel. Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget. Subscribe to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster channel here: https://bit.ly/2PQnaMI #MaydayAirDisaster #MaydayInvestigation #AirEmergency #MaydayEpisodes #planecrashes #airplanecrashes #aviationaccidents #Fullepisode #airplanedisasterdocumentary #aircrashinvestigation #SuperPuma #HelicopterDown