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Tue, Jun 23, 2009

Croc Causes 'Copter Crash Down Under

Passenger In The Helicopter Seriously Injured

Rule number one ... fly the aircraft. An Australian helicopter pilot had that lesson dramatically driven home when he made a sudden turn to get a better look at a crocodile, and crashed in a remote area of Northern Australia near Darwin.

 

The BBC reports the two were flying along Dundee Beach about 37 miles from Darwin when they caught sight of the croc. The pilot, who has not been named. turned to get a better look, and then remembers being "upside down in the mud".

Knowing that it could take as much as a day for a rescue team to reach them, he pulled his injured passenger from the wreckage, and away from the crocodiles, and buried him up to his neck in the sand to help prevent hypothermia.

He then used his satellite phone to call for help.

Doctors who arrived on the scene thought the man was dead until they saw him move his head. Ian Badham, director of Careflight, said the case was "bizarre".

FMI: http://www.casa.gov.au/

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