Daily Mail, August 4th, 2007
HELICOPTER passenger John Kane is one of the luckiest men in Ireland. He escaped unscathed when the machine came down in a field and burst into a fireball. And who could blame him, if he got straight on the phone and told his family to buy a lotto ticket? John and pilot Denis Wheldon scrambled out of the stricken aircraft just seconds before it was engulfed in flames. Both men were uninjured, but the helicopter was reduced to a smouldering pile of ash. The Department of Transport's Air Accident Investigation Unit revealed yesterday that the aircraft had been trailing smoke for several min...
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