OSLO (Reuters) -A helicopter carrying six people crash landed in the ocean off the coast of western Norway on Wednesday, and all those on board were later hoisted from the sea, the country’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centres said.
Norwegian police separately confirmed an accident had taken place, news agency NTB reported.
The medical status of the six people on board was not known, the JRCC said.
The helicopter belonged to Bristow Norway, the company’s country manager, Heidi Wulff Heimark, told daily Stavanger Aftenblad.
Bristow Norway transports crew to and from oil and gas platforms in the North Sea.
Air traffic data showed several rescue helicopters circling in the air near an island west of Bergen, Norway’s second biggest city and a busy hub for the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry.
In 2016, an Airbus Super Puma helicopter returning from the North Sea crashed in roughly the same area, killing all 13 people aboard.
The accident led to the suspension of the use of that type of helicopter by the Norwegian oil and gas industry.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik and Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Gwladys Fouche and Sandra Maler)
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