helicopter crash

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helicopter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhel.ɪˌkɒp.tər/us
/ˈhel.əˌkɑːp.tɚ/
a type of aircraft without wings, that has one or two sets of large blades that go round very fast on top. It can land and take off vertically and can stay in one place in ...
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crash
noun[C]
uk
/kræʃ/us
/kræʃ/
an accident involving a vehicle, usually a serious one in which the vehicle is damaged or someone ...
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(Definition ofhelicopterandcrashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As thehelicoptercrashhas demonstrated, however, our own people are always at risk in a military operation.
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There have been major losses as a result of that work, such as thehelicoptercrashin 1994.
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It has recently been revealed that he survived thehelicoptercrashbut has been horribly disfigured.
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He was also involved in ahelicoptercrashthat resulted in no injuries.
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He died in 1989 in ahelicoptercrashthat was officially labeled an accident.
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After everyone survives ahelicoptercrash, life goes back to normal.
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Thehelicoptercrashthat ends the film actually happened.
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It was the hit song from his last album and the last song released before he died at the age of 33 in ahelicoptercrash.
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After numerous mentions of a helipad on the hospital roof as the anniversary drew near, it soon was soon announced that the episodes would climax in ahelicoptercrash.
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Wells died in ahelicoptercrashin 1994.
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Dornacker survived onehelicoptercrashonly to die in a secondhelicoptercrashin the same year.
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The brothers are in ahelicoptercrashand in order for one of them to survive, doctors use experimental neurosurgery to combine parts of their remaining brains.
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Chuck was injured in thehelicoptercrashon the roof of the hospital and had emergency surgery to remove his spleen.
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He died in ahelicoptercrash.
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The weather on the whole was reported good and there was no reason for flying in the location where the helicopter crashed.
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Within five minutes of take-off, the pilot became disorientated, and the helicopter crashed.
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There are hazards from the hostile environment and from the possibility of helicopter crashes, ship collisions and structural collapse as well as from explosion, fire and well blow-outs.
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At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed.
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This was the first fatalhelicoptercrashanywhere near the heliport since records began in 1976.
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