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Old 15th December 2005 | 04:52
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Don't know about any goss, but the front page of the Cairns post has got photos and articles. I guess it's fine to post names etc. as they're already published in the paper - R22 training sortie, apparently 'learning to hover', the Post says, rego looks like MRJ, with instructor Trevor Lewis and student Tim Box.
Minor injuries - says the instructor hurt his shoulder, but is recovering.
Rolled on its side, cabin & canopy intact, main rotor all bent up and smashed, tail rotor looks to be OK, bend in the boom where it joins the main body structure.
The Post seems to have done a fair job of reporting, although naturally they have dredged up 3 other helicopter crashes to talk about; no idea why they do this, as there's certainly no apparent links???? Standard media procedure, it seems!

One obvious error is the small picture of the instrument panel - caption says 'Ground zero - smashed instruments show negative altitude after the helicopter crash', when in fact all the instruments look fine, and the altimeter is on about minus 70ft, as you could well expect with a QNH change between the crash and when our intrepid reporter got on the scene.
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