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3 dead in tour helicopter crash at Grand Canyon
L A Times ^ | Feb 10, 2018

Posted on 02/10/2018 9:57:05 PM PST by BenLurkin

[S]ix passengers and a pilot were on board the Papillon helicopter when it crashed about 5:20 p.m. The other four were injured and were still being treated at the scene.

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Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said the Eurocopter EC130 crashed in unknown circumstances and sustained heavy damage.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: crash; grandcanyon; helicopter; tour
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To: Bulwyf

I rode down into the Canyon on a mule named Ollie.
lMy muscles ached for days after. I’m sure Ollie was fine.


41 posted on 02/11/2018 10:41:27 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

After reading your home page ... your statement is moot.


42 posted on 02/11/2018 10:58:48 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: knarf

What are you talking about?


43 posted on 02/11/2018 11:15:44 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Did you click the link in my #24 and listen ?


44 posted on 02/11/2018 12:11:36 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: BenLurkin
They should have done the Clark Griswold tour....
45 posted on 02/11/2018 12:13:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: knarf

I responded to your post from my ping list,
which does not show links.

So what is “moot” about my profile page? Do I even want to know?


46 posted on 02/11/2018 12:21:37 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: redfreedom

I agree, and I’ve got 30 years of air traffic control experience ( 26+ USAF and 5 FAA ).


47 posted on 02/11/2018 2:24:13 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Was it as bad as the airplane collision in 1956? Wonder how many still remember that! I do!.

So do I, mainly because of the way it was reported. Both pilots were trying to bypass a thunderhead and were at about 21,000 feet when the mid-air collision occurred. The reporter said it took five minutes to hit the earth and that was a long time to know that you were going to die. 128 people did so.

Artists conception:

48 posted on 02/11/2018 4:14:57 PM PST by Oatka
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To: sparklite2
YOU posted, "Then, just as we broke over the edge and came in full view of the spectacle, the pilot sent Thus Spake Zarathustra into the headphones. Goose bump city. LOL"

Which made no sense to me so I looked it up and learned it is the opening theme to 2001 a Space Odyssey, and I merely stated your announcement should have had a little more than "Thus Spake Zarathusta"

And you commenced to operate from a void and tried to put substance to that void.

Because you had no idea what I was talking about.

So I attacked your home page ... which woke you up.

49 posted on 02/11/2018 6:31:38 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: knarf

Good lord. You could get War and Peace out of a bowl of alphabet soup. And thanks for mentioning my profile page.

I love visitors.


50 posted on 02/11/2018 6:34:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: caltaxed

A few weeks after we got back I read a news story about a family on vaca having helicopter ride with trouble and sitting the copter down... in lava.

If I would have read that before hand NO WAY WOULD I HAVE PUT MY KIDS ON A HELICOPTER!

The weird thing is I had a fear of heights but that ride was so spectacular it didn’t bother me at all.

We also went down on a sub. Snorkeled liked crazy starting at the crack of down. Fresh shrimp. A pigeon, who we named Stumpy cuz he was missing a toe, came into our hotel room every morning to eat breakfast with us. Great vaca!


51 posted on 02/11/2018 6:45:58 PM PST by lizma2
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To: lizma2

My kids said the helicopter Hawaii vacation was the best vacation ever. We were on Maui and hit Snorkel Bobs for their week long snorkeling special. We snorkeled a couple of times a day and swam with the turtles every evening. Beautiful pace outside the politics.


52 posted on 02/11/2018 7:10:47 PM PST by caltaxed
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To: Yosemitest; steve86

I fully agree with the auto-rotation. I should have used a better choice of words. In that terrain I’ll take a guess that the pilot was looking at that small gravel bar just to the right of the crash site as a possible landing site.
(Lost a very good friend in RVN when he had to go into the tree canopy when that was it. RIP brother!)


53 posted on 02/11/2018 8:20:13 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
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To: TaMoDee

Sympathy for your loss, and I guess we’ll just have to wait for the NTSB accident report to find out.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 10:17:55 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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