While cleaning up a wikipedia listing of accidents involving helicopters and other aircraft used in the news media (Wikipedia: List of news aircraft accidents & incidents). I started trying to run down official reports for accidents that did not have one. While going through the Canadian TSB reports I found one helicopter incident that while unrelated to what I was doing, is absolutely horrifying.
As to the cause of the accident, this quote from the report says it all:
As to the cause of the accident, this quote from the report says it all:
At 1545, the pilot was observed to be staggering and smelling of alcohol. On being questioned, the pilot uttered some derogatory remarks.
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