The bad weather in the local area has not only caused delays for the World Championship athletics tournament held in Helsinki, but also could have caused the commercial helicopter flight to crash into Gulf of Finland yesterday just minutes after take off. Some news coverage has been made internationally of it all the way to Australia as well. There were 12 passengers and two crew men. 2+6 from Finland, 4 from Estonia and 2 from US. All seem to have died =/
I was thinking of taking the flight someday as i've never been flying with helicopter, but i think i'll take the boat in the future. By boat it takes 100 minutes, by the helicopter only 20 minutes... nah, i'm not in that much hurry.
- Copterline crash
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junkvist- August 11th, 2005
cold
2005-08-11 06:04 am (UTC)
Maybe you can take the helicopter once the weather settles down
2005-08-11 06:21 am (UTC)
2005-08-11 06:28 am (UTC)
Then maybe next time you're on vacation somewhere you can find a chopper flight
I've never been on a helicopter either, I'd like to, though I've heard it's noisy |>_<|
2005-08-11 12:15 pm (UTC)
2005-08-11 07:23 pm (UTC)
2005-08-12 07:14 am (UTC)
*cuddles all and mourns the nice people who died*
2005-08-12 06:23 pm (UTC)
There's also an issue of terrorism, but personally I think that it's not very possible. There are much better ways to get the attention.
And also I think that there's no need to avoid flights with an helicopeter. It won't probably happen again, like the robbery in my apartment.