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With the whole team’s help, Miranda had them carry the heavy section of rotor blade back to the helo. Though her own efforts would add little, she did what she could.
Andi and Holly went back in search of the broken tree mentioned by the hotshot.
The “cause of incident” was already determined, but this was an excellent chance to study the dynamics of a CH-47D Chinook’s crash.
“These blades are a mess,” Mike set a compass and a ruler on a snapped-off section so that Jeremy would have the orientation of the segment as he photographed it. Then they moved to the next one.
“Rotorcraft never die pretty.” Jon was making notes on his Air Force report form as if he already knew what the conclusion was and didn’t need the details.
“This is the matching one,” Jeremy pointed at a two-foot-lon
