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26th February 2003 | 20:54

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jonnyg

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From: Mallorca

A Bristows helicopter returning from a rig in the North Sea had a lightning strike which overloaded the tail rotor blades (which promptly failed). The pilots managed to sucessfully put it down on the water with floats without doing too much harm....