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Egad, something else we have in common.  I also survived a helicopter 
crash, although not as bad a one as you had.  I'd hired a helicopter to 
take some aerial photographs for a car rally I was managing.  We took 
off from an airport, but during the flight I asked him if he could put 
us down in clearing below (in the mountains).  He said "sure, no 
problem."  But the ground was sloping, and the winds choppy -- first he 
misjudged his altitude, then a wind shift killed his lift while we were 
still too high off the ground.  The chopper dropped like a stone. 
Luckily, we both walked away from it.

Let's see, so far I've survived that, a crash in a backwoods car race 
where the car rolled off the road and hit two trees, a hang glider, and 
a bad fall from a horse sprinting full-speed to a finish line (that was 
the only one that put me in the hospital).  I must have a good guardian 
angel.


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Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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