Super Puma crash: Funeral held for female victim

By FRANK URQUHART
Published 9th Sep 2013, 15:32 BST
Sarah Darnley died after a helicopter went down in the North Sea near Shetland. Picture: PASarah Darnley died after a helicopter went down in the North Sea near Shetland. Picture: PA
Sarah Darnley died after a helicopter went down in the North Sea near Shetland. Picture: PA
THE family and friends of Sarah Darnley gathered at a crematorium in Moray this afternoon for the funeral service of the first women to be killed in the history of Britain’s oil and gas industry.

Ms Darnley, 45, who worked as a supervisor for Sodexo UK Remote Sites, was one of the four passengers on board a CHC-operated Super Puma helicopter who lost their lives when the aircraft crashed into the sea off Sumburgh Head on Shetland on 23 August.

On the day of the disaster she had been returning to Sumburgh airport from the Borgsten Dolphin drilling rig were she had only recently started work.

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