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Visit Sumburgh Airport Memorial, Grutness, Shetland, UK
This memorial is dedicated to those who lost their lives in five aircraft accidents, related to the offshore oil industry, all of which were based or operated from Sumburgh Airport.
On the 31st of July 1979 Dan Air flight 0034 an HS748 aeroplane failed to safely take-off from Sumburgh airport with the loss of 17 lives. Seven years later on the 6th November 1986 a Chinook helicopter returning from offshore, suffered mechanical failure 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport with the loss of 45 lives. Four years afterwards, on the 25th of July 1990, during a shuttle operation in the Brent oil field an S61 Helicopter ditched beside the Brent Spar installation, 112 miles north-east of Sumburgh with the loss of 6 lives. On the 14th March 1992, whilst transferring oil workers from the Cormorant Alpha platform 102 miles north-east of Sumburgh, an AS332L helicopter crashed with the loss of 11 lives and on the 23rd August 2013 an AS332L2 helicopter approaching Sumburgh airport ditched with four fatalities.
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