The Scottish passenger on board the helicopter which crashed on Norway’s coastline on Friday has been named locally as Iain Stuart from Aberdeenshire.

The 41-year-old, from Laurencekirk, was an employee of global oil and gas service company Halliburton.

The Airbus Super Puma was carrying two crew and 11 passengers from the North Sea Gullfaks B oil field, around 74 miles (120 kilometres) off the Norwegian coast when it crashed en route to Flesland Airport in Bergen on Friday.

Air accident investigators began the task of removing the remains of the wreckage from the Norwegian coastline on Saturday. The cause of the crash has not yet been ascertained but inquiries are ongoing.

A team of UK crash investigators has flown out to the site, near the city of Bergen, and are assisting Norwegian colleagues with their investigation.

The Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority said the helicopter’s flight recorders would be sent to Britain where data from the black boxes would be read.

There have been five incidents involving Super Pumas operating in the UK oil and gas industry since 2009.

In May 2012 workers were rescued when an EC225 ditched off Aberdeen and five months later everyone on board the same model was safely returned to shore after it was forced to ditch off the coast of Shetland.

Investigators identified a problem with the gearbox in both cases.

Passengers and crew survived a previous incident when an EC225LP went down off the coast of Aberdeen in February 2009.

Two fatal crashes involving the AS332L2 saw 16 lives lost when the aircraft carrying workers from a BP oil platform crashed off Peterhead in Aberdeenshire in April 2009, and four oil workers died when the same model went down off Shetland in August 2013.

The use of several types of Super Puma was suspended for a time following the last tragedy, affecting thousands of North Sea workers who rely on the aircraft for travel to and from platforms.

The CAA has since introduced a series of measures to improve the safety of helicopter operations.

They include a no-fly rule in the most extreme sea conditions and operators must now ensure every passenger is equipped with a more advanced emergency breathing system.

Audrey Wood, who lost her son Stuart in the 2009 crash, is supporting an online petition calling on the CAA to permanently remove the EC225 from service.

The petition, which has collected around 3,000 signatures in 24 hours, states: “We call on the CAA to put the lives of offshore oil workers and the pilots before vested interests, and revoke the air worthiness certificates for this aircraft. Failure to do this will result in more needless deaths.”

Mrs Wood, from Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, wrote on the Change.org page: “Seven years on and my life has stood still.

“Wouldn’t wish this heartache on my worst enemy. All variants of Puma should be removed from the oil industry, men should feel safe travelling to work not fear if they will ever see their loved ones at home again.”

Industry body Oil and Gas UK said it was working closely with the CAA to understand the circumstances of the tragedy.

Director of safety Mick Borwell said: “We will be following developments closely but in the meantime speculation on the cause must be avoided.

“We will work with the helicopter operators to develop effective support to the workforce and offshore operations during this period of investigation.”