The type of helicopter that crashed in Norway on Friday, killing 13 people including a Briton, have been grounded worldwide.Eleven bodies have been found after the Airbus Super Puma aircraft crashed near the island of Turøy on Friday. Two people remain missing and are feared dead.The helicopter was carrying oil workers to the mainland from Statoil’s Gullfaks B oil platform in the North Sea when it came down.
A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said: “We have offered our support to the family of a British national who has sadly died in a helicopter crash in Bergen, Norway. Our thoughts are with all those affected. We will remain in contact with local authorities.”Norway’s joint rescue coordination centre recovered 11 bodies but called off the search for the two remaining passengers five hours later, saying they could not have survived the crash.

The flight was operated on behalf of the Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil by a Canadian firm, CHC Helicopter Service. Statoil said one of the passengers was an employee, although all were on a “mission” for the firm.The other passengers worked for the US oilfield services companies Halliburton and Schlumberger, Norwegian firms Aker Solutions and Karsten Moholt, and Welltec, a Danish robotics company, Statoil said