Aviation Firms Form Organization To Push for Higher Safety Standards

摘要

On any given day, hundreds of men and women are flown from bases across the Gulf Coast to drilling rigs and production platforms dotted across the Gulf of Mexico by the mainstay of the aviation fleet — the helicopter. Companies carry relief crews, vital spare parts and other high-priority cargo that cannot wait for the slower speed of a crewboat to offshore facilities from Louisiana bases in Venice, Port Fourchon, the Iberia, Houma and Lafayette to name just a couple. Helicopters are used around the world for the same duties from the North Sea to off the coast of Brazil and West Africa to the Barents Sea.