Oil Rig Workers' Fight for Survival in the North Sea Helicopter Crash | Mayday: Air Disaster

Amid the challenging North Sea, where oil platforms are a lifeline, a Super Puma helicopter with 16 oil workers en route to Marathon Oil's Brae B platform faces a perilous journey. Caught in a violent storm with hail and lightning, the helicopter crashes into the sea during a Force 10 storm. With one life raft unusable, all 18 occupants crowd onto the other, which is rapidly deflating due to damage from the crash.
How did the oil workers aboard the Super Puma helicopter manage to survive the harrowing crash into the North Sea during a violent storm in 1995?
Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 3 Episode 7 "Helicopter Down": During extreme weather conditions, a Super Puma helicopter makes a routine journey to a North Sea oil platform. With a flash and a bang, routine goes out the window and the sixteen passengers and crew find themselves struggling for their lives.
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.
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