Scottish man, 41, among Norway helicopter crash victims

A British man killed in a helicopter crash in Norway which claimed 13 lives was from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, according to reports.

The man has not been named but it is understood he was 41 and worked for US oil field services company Halliburton. He died along with 10 other passengers and two crew in the crash on Friday.

The Super Puma helicopter was flying from the North Sea Gullfaks B oil field, around 74 miles off the Norwegian coast when it crashed en route to Flesland Airport in Bergen on Friday.

The pilots - a Norwegian and an Italian. The 10 other Norwegian passengers were employed by companies including Schlumberger, Aker Solutions, and Statoil. Their names have not yet been released.

All UK commercial passenger flights using the Airbus EC225LP - or Super Puma - model have been grounded by the Civil Aviation Authority following the accident.

The aircraft shattered into pieces when it smashed into the rocky shoreline of Turoey, a tiny island outside Bergen, Norway's second-largest city.

Emergency crews pulled the wrecked fuselage out of the sea on Saturday ahead of an investigation into the cause.

The Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority said the helicopter's flight recorders would be sent to Britain where data from the black boxes would be read.

The UK CAA said in a statement: "Following the accident the CAA has issued an instruction to stop any commercial passenger flights by UK operators flying the Airbus EC225LP helicopter.

"This mirrors action taken by the Norwegian CAA. The restriction does not apply to search and rescue flights."