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  • One very lucky chopper pilot

    Here in NZ yesterday

    Watch as a helicopter gets caught up in some cables while installing a Christmas tree.*Subscribe: http://bit.ly/abcWNNvideos

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    paulw

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    it pays to be good, but i'll take luck any day.

    Now he just has to get back in and fly.....once he's cleared of PTSD.

    The ground crew was even luckier.

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    • #3
      OUCH!!

      Lucky is right, but even luckier is that they weren't doing a power line repair
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      • #4
        I don't understand how anyone could've considered it a good idea to use a chopper in such close corners.
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        • #5
          Very lucky indeed... but I agree with Umfriend... It looks like there wasn't much room (could be an illusion), but still...
          pixar
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          • #6
            Looks basically like they shouldn't have been using a helicopter for the job.
            Way too much risk of this sort of thing happening.
            Someone's gonna lose their job over this.
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