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Old 6th Nov 2003, 06:28
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Nothing fancy (just stupid) . . . .

I almost hit a 400 thousand volt set of powerlines going at about 115 KTS, there were diagonal to a highway that I was overflying looking for a stolen truck, when I saw the wires out of the corner of my eye they were very close, (3 seconds away) I pulled back on the cyclic so fast and far back that the 206L4 went past vertical, and I just kept pulling the cyclic.

That was my scariest moment so far, and the sad thing was it was completely avoidable.
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