Newfoundland News

The lone survivor of a helicopter crash off Newfoundland last March said Thursday he doesn't know the answer to the question so many have been asking - why he survived when 17 others did not.

A union leader representing offshore oil industry workers in Newfoundland and Labrador says testimony from the sole survivor of the Cougar helicopter crash underscores serious problems with offshore safety.

The final moments aboard Cougar Flight 491 are currently being recounted for an inquiry by the flight's only survivor, Robert Decker, in Newfoundland.

Left, Robert Decker , the sole survivor of the March 12 helicopter crash off Newfoundland, arrives with his lawyer Dan Simmons to testify before the inquiry into offshore helicopter safety this morning in St.

On Sept. 28, Roberto Perez, 54, of Carlstadt, was observed by Police Officer Laura Paul who alleges that he was driving in an erratic manner on Union Valley Road.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The first phase of an inquiry into offshore helicopter safety, sparked by the crash of a helicopter with the loss of 17 lives last March, began Monday in St.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Transport Canada's regional director of civil aviation, Michael Stephenson, is on the stand Monday at the inquiry here into offshore helicopter safety.

The board that regulates the offshore industry told the Wells Inquiry Wednesday it received a handful of complaints about offshore helicopters in the past three years.

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The Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry will start public hearings Monday, October 19, 2009.

The wreckage of the Cougar Helicopter flight CH191is displayed to the media in St.

The European Union's executive body called for sharp cuts in the amount of cod fisherman can catch next year – up to 25 percent in some areas.

Oil production at White Rose and Terra Nova is getting back to normal on Newfoundland's Grand Banks.

The same model of helicopter involved in a fatal crash off Newfoundland this year is under scrutiny by an engineering team in the United Kingdom due to unexplained cracks in the footings that keep the gearbox attached to the aircraft.

Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.

Regulators invited oil companies yesterday to submit nominations for offshore acreage off Newfoundland, where three projects including Hibernia produce crude and a fourth is under development.

Harriet Marie Lewellyn, 62, of Millville and King, N.C., died suddenly Saturday, Sept.

In 1982, 84 workers died when the Ocean Ranger drilling rig sank east of Newfoundland.

A male Swedish college student, Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has begun pumping his breasts at three-hour intervals in a 90-day experiment to see if he can produce milk.

"The wave of business investment that was previously offsetting other areas of weakness in Nova Scotia's economy has ebbed away and is no longer expected to keep the province in positive growth mode in 2009," said Craig Wright , senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.