Cougar Helicopters Sikorsky S-92 Crash off Newfoundland Canada last year

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/cougar_491/

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Investigative journalism program “The Fifth Estate” is broadcasting a piece this evening that alleges to have found that the maker of a helicopter that crashed near Newfoundland a year ago, killing 17 people, knew more than six months earlier about the gearbox problem that downed the chopper.

The CBC investigation also revealed that U.S. and Canadian aviation safety organizations knew about the Sikorsky helicopter’s flaw in August 2008.

On March 12, 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 491 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean 55 kilometres southeast of St. John’s. Both pilots and 15 passengers died, leaving one survivor.