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Old Nov 21, 2015 | 2:32 pm
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For completeness the rest of the story:"Weather conditions were too bad on Saturday for crews to reach the scene where the helicopter crashed, in a crevasse 750 metres up a valley, to recover the bodies of those killed.
Inspector John Canning said recovery would be very difficult in the dangerous terrain, where debris was scatted hundreds of metres around the crash site.
"I'm not going to risk any more lives, we've lost seven," he said.
Earlier, four choppers responded to the crash site and winched a paramedic and a rescuer down to the scene to see if anyone had survived the crash."


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/helic...#ixzz3sAESnWK8
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