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Helicopter accident in London: "It's a miracle more persons were not killed"

London, United Kingdom - The pilot had totalled more than 10,000 flight hours

"It's a miracle more persons were not killed": this is the comment of London Met Police Commander Neil Basu on the accident which, in the morning of Wednesday 16 January 2013, involved an AW-109 helicopter, registration code G-CRST, which hit the jib of a crane located on the Saint George Wharf Tower, a 181-metre-tall skyscraper currently under construction in Vauxhall, South London. The victims of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1149012
Rome, Italy, 01/16/2013 23:59
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