Incident Disclosure 2011

Cougar Flight 851 Departure from Normal Flight Regime (Update)

August 11, 2011

The C-NLOPB has received an update from Husky Energy on the July 23 incident involving Cougar Flight 851 as it departed the SeaRose with five passengers and two crew on board. During the incident the helicopter departed its normal flight regime. However, the crew was able to stabilize the aircraft into a hover, complete equipment checks, and then continue to St. John’s without further incident. The helicopter was then taken out of service, inspected, verified to be airworthy and returned to service the following day.

Husky has informed the C-NLOPB that Cougar Helicopters’ investigation into the incident is on-going and Cougar has taken remedial action to prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future. The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has also initiated an investigation into the incident.

The C-NLOPB’s role is to review plans and actions that Operators and their contractors, in this case Cougar Helicopters, take in response to incidents. We apply additional oversight in the event of serious incidents such as this one, and we have already established high level communications with the TSB so that we can receive early notification of any of their investigation findings. The C-NLOPB will follow up with the Operator and Cougar Helicopters to ensure lessons learned are implemented and preventative measures are put into place.

C-NLOPB Contact:
Sean Kelly M.A., APR, FCPRS
(709) 778-1418
(709) 689-0713 (cell)
skelly@cnlopb.nl.ca

Husky Contact:
Margaret Allan
(709) 724-3981
margaret.allan@huskyenergy.com

Cougar Helicopters Contact:
Candace Moakler
(709) 758-4041
cmoakler@cougar.ca

Transportation Safety Board Media Relations:
(819) 994-8053


Incident Disclosures 2011

DateUpdate
Dec 16, 2011Contact Between the Maersk Detector and GSF Grand Banks
Nov 25, 2011Contact Between the Maersk Detector and GSF Grand Banks
Nov 22, 2011Hydraulic leak identified on Cougar helicopter – Update
Nov 21, 2011Hydraulic leak identified on Cougar helicopter
Nov 21, 2011Choke and Kill Lines Impairment – GSF Grand Banks
Oct 13, 2011C-NLOPB Responding to SBM Spill from GSF Grand Banks
Oct 6, 2011Grand Banks Operators Managing Satellite Communications Problem
Sep 20, 2011C-NLOPB Responding to SBM Spill by Husky Energy
Aug 30, 2011Scheduled Flight Turnaround
Aug 26, 2011SeaRose Power Outage
Aug 26, 2011Hibernia Lifeboat Impairment (Update)
Aug 25, 2011Hibernia Lifeboat Impairment
Aug 11, 2011Cougar Flight 851 Departure from Normal Flight Regime (Update)
Jul 23, 2011Cougar Flight 851 Departure from Normal Flight Regime
Jul 17, 2011Scheduled Flight Turnaround Incident
Jun 6, 2011Lifting system failure on GSF Grand Banks
Apr 27, 2011Small Fire in the Electrical Switch Room on the Henry Goodrich
Apr 14, 2011Scheduled Flight Turnaround Incident April 14, 2011
Apr 11, 2011Loss of Containment on the GSF Grand Banks
Apr 1, 2011Minor Incident with Flight 521 April 1, 2011
Mar 28, 2011C-NLOPB responding to SBM Spill from the Henry Goodrich