Pilot 'Hit a Lamp Post' ; Helicopter Rotor Struck an 18ft Pole, Finds Probe
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A HELICOPTER which crashed in a fireball last month struck a lamp post as its pilot tried to land in a school car park, air accident investigators have found.
Witnesses told how it was 'an absolute miracle' that nobody was killed when the helicopter came down and burst into flames at Bettystown, Co. Meath The Sikorsky S76, worth around E10million, first landed on a beach around 100 metres away but the pilot decided to move it when a crowd gathered.See the full content of this document
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Pilot 'Hit a Lamp Post' ; Helicopter Rotor Struck an 18ft Pole, Finds Probe
But its main rotor struck the 18ft lamppost and disintegrated, according to a preliminary report from the Air Accident Investigation Unit.
The repor...See the full content of this document
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