Well it's been a courious week aviation wise, for some reason the numbers of light aircraft hitting powerlines is well up. This mostly seems to happen during the landing approach, and even odder the passengers usually survive (not always though) Why this is happening is anybodies guess, maybe having powerlines on runway approaches is a bad idea, they are supprisingly hard to see even in good lighting.
A helicopter has crashed with loss of life, hardly big news sadly, this one however was made in the late 1950's. Thats a 70+ year old helicopter not only still flying but working, not just doing airshows as a vintage display aircraft. I know aircraft are expensive, but this thing is old, well it was, theres not much left now. We need a realistic age limit for working aircraft, not just keep it going until someone dies.
Staying with helicopters, two flying to an island had a decision to make, turn and take the longer route or fly into bad weather. One turned, the other took the direct route. The fuel tanks and a body were found floating in the sea. The aircraft taking a route around the bad weather landed safetly.
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