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No charges over helicopter crash

UNION leaders say families of the 16 men who died in a North Sea helicopter crash will be upset by a decision not to pursue criminal proceedings.

All 14 passengers and two crew lost their lives after the Super Puma plunged into the sea off the Aberdeenshire coast while returning from the BP Miller platform on April 1, 2009.

Eight of the victims came from the north-east of Scotland, seven from the rest of the UK, and one from Latvia.

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