Indyplus video: Shetland helicopter crash police report

Saturday 24 August 2013 12:19 EDT

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Four people who died after a helicopter plunged into the sea off Shetland have been named.

They were Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland; Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin; Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness; and George Allison, 57, from Winchester.

The helicopter was carrying oil workers, returning to Shetland, north east of the Scottish mainland, from the Borgsten Dolphin platform in the North Sea.

Watch the police press conference on the fatal crash below:

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