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Old 8th Sep 2015, 11:17
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Peter-RB
 
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Landing under HT cables

Yesterday about lunchtime, I heard the sounds of a Helicopter obviously getting into a low and slow config,.. but when I finally saw it, to my horror it was set up in a landing slope that not only took it over many houses, but UNDER a set of 6 main HT cable with the Earth at the top of the pylons, at the point of landing the cables actually dipped lower due to the hill they were fixed to, as I was going out I deviated to go and look, by this time Heli had just departed after seemingly dropping off one pax, that must have been a very important delivery(to a building site) to take such a risk IMO.

I honestly was expecting to hear the bump followed by black smoke, I was very relieved to have seen the JHeli departing, .....but what about next time..
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