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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.
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OUCH!!
Lucky is right, but even luckier is that they weren't doing a power line repair
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I don't understand how anyone could've considered it a good idea to use a chopper in such close corners.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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Very lucky indeed... but I agree with Umfriend... It looks like there wasn't much room (could be an illusion), but still...Comment
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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.PC-1
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