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US Fish & Wildlife Employee Injured In Helo Ground Incident

Ouch!

Editor's Note: This is one of those times when the FAA Preliminary Report says it all. The ANN staff extends its wishes for a speedy recovery for the US Fish & Wildlife worker injured in the following incident; for the rest of us, this serves as a reminder to keep a careful eye on the various cords present in and around an aircraft's cockpit...

IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 48MP        Make/Model: HU36      Description: HUGHES 369D ROTORCRAFT
  Date: 06/06/2007     Time: 0550

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: Serious     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: None

LOCATION
  City: TROY   State: OR   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE SUSTAINED SERIOUS
  INJURIES WHEN HIS HEADSET CORD BECAME ENTANGLED ON THE SKID OF N48MP, A
  HUGHES 369D ROTORCRAFT; AS THE ROTORCRAFT LIFTED OFF THE GROUND, THE
  ENTANGLED CORD CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO BE PICKED UP AND, WHEN THE CORD
  BROKE, DROPPED HIM INTO A TREE,  NEAR TROY, OR

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   1     Min:   0     Unk:   

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA
  Activity: Public Use      Phase: Standing      Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: SPOKANE, WA  (NM13)                   Entry date: 06/12/2007

FMI: www.faa.gov

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