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Old 7th Aug 2010, 07:56
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Yellow & Blue Baron
 
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I think it must be quite unbalancing to have someone grab onto your skid while attempting to make the take-off! Especially if the grabbing has not been previously agreed between the pilot and the grabber.

Does anyone remember the poor pilot who, apart from having the linen-wrapped dead body of Murtaza Bhutto (son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Ali Bhutto) layed out next to him, was forced to carry uninvited 'non paying' passengers?

I think (overall) he managed the situation fairly well.



Pakistani registered Bell 206 Jet Ranger III lifts from the road outside Karachi's Mideast Hospital (which had been closed for the landing) on Saturday 22nd September 1996. On board is the deceased body of the son of former Prime Minister Ali Bhutto. Several mourners did not wish to let go of the late Murtaza Bhutto and held on to the helicopter - one of the 'non-fare-paying passengers' remained attached to the helicopter and which forced the pilot to land at nearby Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim where the 'passenger' eventually let go and the Jet Ranger contined to Murtaza's burial location in Larkano.

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