A Super Puma helicopter crashed about 120 miles east of Aberdeen while approaching an offshore oil platform.

Everyone was recovered from the water. An assistant controller of the RAF’s aeronautical rescue coordination center at RAF Kinloss, Scotland. “We don’t know their condition, but we believe there are no major injuries.”

Five helicopters were scrambled when the Super Puma helicopter ditched.

Some of the survivors where recovered by helicopter and some by boat from the oil platform

The RAF was providing helicopter assistance to the Aberdeen Coast Guard in the rescue.

No one knows for sure if the pilot transmitted a mayday before the aircraft ditched.

The area is home to a number of offshore oil rigs. Lyon said he did not know which one the helicopter was heading to or where it was coming from.

The alarm was raised shortly before 19:00 GMT  its first report of the crash at 6:43 p.m.  When three flares were seen to be fired from the scene.

The Super Puma Helicopter is regularly used to transport people to and from oil platforms in the North Sea and as has a excellent safety record.

Weather at the crash site is relatively good, though slight fog is hampering visibility, he said.

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