Rig crane was used to pluck a helicopter out the water.
Or what was left of it.
Small field chopper. Wind gust caught it was pilot took off. Flipped him backwards. Landed in water.
Pilot made it ok.
talking about choppers,i was sitting on long beach ,on Vancouver \Island , Sedco 135F was drilling offshore, a 206 was flying parts out to the rig . 1 piece was a drill core about 8 " in dia 6 feet long , it slipped out of the strap just as he flew over the beach and it landed in about a foot of water about 50 ft in front of me . Some scrambling from the airport and rigging people, fortunatly nobody was hit as the beach was well used.
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