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Old 23rd Nov 2011, 02:17
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The footage is pretty good, you can see him leaning out and looking down, and the offending wire is also in view moving towards and then hitting the main rotor, almost as if it got drawn in by the wash. The pilot was lucky not to fall further or get cut in half by the flailing rotor.
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