1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash On 6 November 1986, a Boeing 234LR Chinook helicopter returning workers from the Brent oilfield crashed on approach to land at Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands. At from the runway the helicopter had a catastrophic forward transmission failure which de-synchronised the tandem rotors, causing the blades to collide. The helicopter crashed into the sea and sank. 43 passengers and two crew members were killed in the crash; one passenger and one crew member survived with wounds. The helicopter was normally based at Aberdeen Airport but had been based at Sumburgh Airport since 3
Chinook Jargon a hundred years old, like Henry Broderick, the realtor, and Joshua Green, the banker." Jones estimates that in pioneer times in the 1860s there were about 100,000 speakers of Chinook Jargon. Most books written in English still use the term Chinook Jargon, but some linguists working with the preservation of a creolized form of the language used in Grand Ronde, Oregon prefer the term "Chinuk Wawa" (with the spelling 'Chinuk' instead of 'Chinook'). Historical speakers did not use the name "Chinook Wawa", however, but rather ""the Wawa"" or ""Lelang"" (from Fr. "la langue", the language, or tongue). NB "Wawa" also