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Piloting the west pack chopper. another news station has hired tom to fly a cameraman out to get shots of the rescue. when he takes off, tom isnt planning to get involved and doesnt have a winch or trained rescue personnel on board. but when he gets to the scene, tom has a tough choice to make. >> they would have had to make some decisions about whether they were going to try and save these people or not. they were in a terrible position there. breaking water, huge seas still very, very dangerou...

More action than i think a james bond movie. >> may, 1980. brisbane, australia. a call comes in about a yacht in distress. >> we got word there was a boat in trouble off the island. >> greg and the camera man took off in the chopper 7 news chopper to perform what they assume would be a routine water rescue in morton bay. they dont have exact coordinates for the boats location. they spot a different vessel, the water police, who are responding to the may day call. greg hopes the water police know...

Swells, then it was just chaos for them. >> greg cant believe what hes seeing. the pounding waves swallow of coast guard vessel flipping it and tossing it into the ocean. >> the boat had an air pocket under it, luckily. we were able to get out and swim to the bow. i had to get back to that boat. >> the men make it out of the water but are now stranded on the overturned hull. >> once we got into that sort of trouble, we didnt know how we were going to get out of it. we were fighting for our own l...

Must have been horrendous for them. >> eddies mentor tom ward is piloting the west pack chopper. another news station has hired tom to fly a cameraman out to get shots of the rescue. when he takes off, tom isnt planning to get involved and doesnt have a winch or trained rescue personnel on board. but when he gets to the scene, tom has a tough choice to make. >> they would have had to make some decisions about whether they were going to try and save these people or not. they were in a terrible po...

>> eddies mentor tom ward is piloting the west pack chopper. another news station has hired tom to fly a cameraman out to get shots of the rescue. when he takes off, tom isnt planning to get involved and doesnt have a winch or trained rescue personnel on board. but when he gets to the scene, tom has a tough choice to make. >> they would have had to make some decisions about whether they were going to try and save these people or not. they were in a terrible position there. breaking water, huge s...

Coming down and being blown by the wind and at the right time lining up so the skid is on the right position so the person on the boat can grab on and climb into the helicopter. thats a challenge to do. particularly since he doesnt have a crew on board. >> we all had our hearts in our mouths. we expected the chopper to lose control and crash as well. >> as the pilot approaches collin grabs the skid, but he slips and falls into the sea. tom tries again. with mere feet separating the helicopter fr...

>> may, 1980. brisbane, australia. a call comes in about a yacht in distress. >> we got word there was a boat in trouble off the island. >> greg and the camera man took off in the chopper 7 news chopper to perform what they assume would be a routine water rescue in morton bay. they dont have exact coordinates for the boats location. they spot a different vessel, the water police, who are responding to the may day call. greg hopes the water police know where the troubled boat is, but he cant conf...

Swells then it was just chaos for them. >> greg cant believe what hes seeing. the pounding waves swallow of coast guard vessel flipping it and tossing it into the ocean. >> the boat had an air pocket under it luckily. we were able to get out and swim to the bow. i had to get back to that boat. >> the men make it out of the water but are now stranded on the overturned hull. >> once we got into that sort of trouble, we didnt know how we were going to get out of it. we were fighting for our own lif...

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