More detail on this person: Helicopter crash
after an engine failure at a hover with a long
line carousel full of explosives while flying for
an oil company.While flying for an oil company
during a "long line" carousel full of explosives,
he lost power with six men under the carousel.
Rather than punch it off to save himself, he bent
it over in to the trees rather than drop it on the
men.
From: Vincent John Gingros, July 2002.
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