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2008/10/18

Victoria Helicopter Crash injures Instructor and Student



What: R-22 training helicopter
Where: Victoria International Airport off of the tarmac in a field in the 9800 block of Willingdon Road outside the airport security fence, but on property owned by the Victoria Airport Authority.
When: just before noon Friday Oct 17 on a training flight
Who: The instructor was seriously injured; the student was trapped in the wreckage for some time with minor injuries. The student was freed by firefighters from the airport and North Saanich. The injured parties were Coast Helicopter College instructor Wayne Goodridge and student Richard Yuen.
Why: Witnesses said the helicopter "...was doing an exercise about 100 metres above a grassy training area west of the airport when it fell to the ground, bounced twice and landed upside down." The chopper crashed in an area where trainee pilots practice a maneuver called autorotation, coming down without power.
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