^ That made me think Misskit... I had one offshore colleague and friend killed in Brazil in a helicopter crash in 2003. I just found a new article about it...

Oil Workers killed in Helicopter Crash
Three passengers, including an Aberdeen oil worker, and two crew have been killed in a helicopter crash 115 miles north-east of Rio de Janeiro off the coast of Brazil.

The helicopter was being used for a crew-change operation when its tail rotor struck one of the antennas on the Toisa Mariner tanker and broke off. The helicopter lost control and crashed into the sea quickly sinking to a depth of 900 meters. There were no survivors.

Aberdeen Oil worker Kenn Ward was employed by Stolt Offshore who were operating the tanker for Petrobras.


There was also a wealthy farming type guy living in a neighbouring village in Somerset who was killed while crashing his own helicopter and a guy the year below at my secondary school in Somerset joined the army and was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq.

They are inherently dangerous.