Rescue Services: Helicopters
Commons · Question 12328 · Tabled 23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Brian Leishman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many offshore energy workers have been winched to safety from (a) fixed offshore oil and gas installations, (b) floating production storage and offloading units and (c) offshore wind farms on the UK Contine
Answer
Answered by Keir Mather, 1 Jul 2026
The winching systems on search and rescue (SAR) helicopters have a limit on their load capacity which has been further reduced by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) imposed limit for the carriage of ‘human external cargo’. The Maritime and C...