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Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.

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British Airways Helicopters Flight 5918

Accident in the southern Celtic Sea

On 16 July 1983, British Airways Helicopters Flight 5918, a British Airways Helicopters commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter, Oscar November (G-BEON), crashed in the southern Celtic Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, while en route from Penzance to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in poor…
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Isles of Scilly

Group of islands off Cornwall, England

The Isles of Scilly are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point, and has the southernmost inhabited settlement in…
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