EIGHT bodies have been recovered and another eight people are missing after a helicopter crashed in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland today

EIGHT bodies have been recovered and another eight people are missing after a helicopter crashed in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland today.

The aircraft was returning from an oil platform just before 2pm when it went down 35 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast.

A huge search and rescue operation was launched by no survivors have been found yet.