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Old 22nd Feb 2012, 20:19
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I thought that as well Westie but the report says:

"Speaking last night a spokesman from the power company said: “We received a report from police at 11.02pm that a helicopter had come into contact with overhead power lines.

“Our engineers are currently on site and have established that a 132,000 volt overhead power line has been damaged.

“This interrupted power supplies to 373 customers, and others across a wider area would have had a flickering supply for a few seconds which then returned to normal."

Doesn't make sense if only a few hundred customers were affected. On the other hand there are 132KV lines visible in the photo of the downed chopper, assuming of course it's genuine.
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