With a passenger yelling “don’t do it,” the pilot of an Airbus Helicopters AS350 B3 made a second attempt at landing on an Alaska ridgeline, but the helicopter became engulfed by swirling snow, struck the ridgeline and rolled backward, killing five of the six people on board, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
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‘Like a Little White Room’
An AS350 encountered a whiteout and struck a ridgeline during an attempted landing in an Alaska heli-ski area, killing the pilot and four passengers.