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NZ helo crash

aeromed202

SOH-CM-2014
Just caught this story. An early Christmas present for the pilot I guess.


A pilot cheated death after his helicopter crashed while installing a city's giant Christmas tree. Greg Gribble was installing the seven-storey, fibre optic Telecom Christmas tree on Te Wero Island, in Auckland, New Zealand, when the incident happened.Footage filmed by TV crews covering the Christmas tree installation show the helicopter slowly descending from about 25 feet when suddenly its blades appear to get caught in cables attached to scaffolding.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...mas-tree-crash-115875-23582334/#ixzz1eXC3SNJC


 
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