Copter crash pilot disoriented: report

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the pilot of a helicopter that crashed in Antarctica two years ago may have been disoriented.

The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in Antarctica two years ago may have been disoriented, a report says.

The pilot and two passengers were seriously injured and the helicopter destroyed in the crash near Davis Base in December 2013.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, in a report released on Monday, says the helicopter was flying at about 150 feet (45.72 metres) in bad weather when the pilot "probably became spatially disoriented".


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