Air Crash Investigations

Air Crash Investigations

January 19, 1995, sixteen oil rig workers' and two pilots' lives hang in the balance when their Super Puma helicopter is struck by lightning in a storm while flying to a North Sea oil platform. When lightning strikes the tail rotor and it fails crashing in the waters below. Everyone on board gets on a life raft, which is overcrowded and leaking in giant swells. Despite the conditions, the workers and pilots are rescued.