A helicopter crash in Norway has been confirmed on Friday morning with all 13 passengers on board the helicopter feared dead.

The helicopter was enroute to the Norwegian city of Bergens from Gullfaks oil field and 11 of the passengers have been confirmed to have been employees of Statoil.

The helicopter, a Eurocopter 225 was reported to have been ‘completely destroyed’ and the Helicopter Service company ‘CHC Helicopter’ confirmed that there had been “an incident involving one of our aircraft in the Norwegian sector”.

Although rescue officials arrived at the scene, Norwegian media have reported that there were no survivors.

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