Copter

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Entries for January, 2009

All 5 bodies recovered copter crash

The bodies of all five victims of a Dec. 11 helicopter crash off Sabine Pass have been recovered.
The helicopter was bound for a Gulf of Mexico oil platform.
Jefferson County Justice of the Peace identified three victims, whose bodies were recovered the day of the accident, as: the pilot, 43-year-old Joseph Laugelle Jr. of Quincy, Mass.; [...]

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Sunday helicopter crash

The wife of one of the workers killed in a Sunday helicopter crash is suing the company that operated the aircraft.
The Sikorsky S-76C, carrying a pilot, co-pilot and seven workers bound for a Shell Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, crashed about 2:10 p.m. Sunday in a marshy area of western Terrebonne Parish near [...]

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Trump Tower helicopter operation

In a sky-high drama construction workers on Saturday installed the underpinnings for the spire atop Donald Trump’s Chicago skyscraper, which ranks as America’s second-tallest building after Sears Tower.
Sikorsky S-61 helicopter dangled three-legged steel sections of the spire over the tower’s roof. Ironworkers aligned the sections, then bolted them into place, despite the blasts of cold [...]

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