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2009/02/25

Hughes Helicopter Crash


What: Hughes 369-F chopper owned by Blackwater Worldwide (now called Xe.)
Where: U.S. Training Center campus 30 minutes south of Norfolk, Va.
When: Feb. 24, 2009--Tuesday 1:33 p.m.
Who: Instructor and student. (Instructor was declared dead on site; student was ported to a hospital.)
Why: The instructor and student were on a practice run when the helicopter's skid apparently clipped an object on the ground and it crashed. The student was transported to a Chesapeake, Va hospital.
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