San Diego Bay | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:40:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Pilot rescued from San Diego Bay https://airflightdisaster.com/pilot-rescued-from-san-diego-bay/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:40:51 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=11083 What: Helicopter en route from Fifth Avenue Terminal Where: San Diego Bay When: August 22, 2010 6:20 p.m Who: Pilot Why: When his helicopter suffered power loss, the helicopter pilot attempted landing on the Coronado Bridge. Persons on the bridge were in fear of a bridge collision, but those on the bridge need not have...

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Where: San Diego Bay
When: August 22, 2010 6:20 p.m
Who: Pilot
Why: When his helicopter suffered power loss, the helicopter pilot attempted landing on the Coronado Bridge. Persons on the bridge were in fear of a bridge collision, but those on the bridge need not have worried; the helicopter ended up instead in San Diego Bay.

Flotation devices kept the helicopter from sinking, and harbor police rescued the pilot. Rescuers needed every moment as the the pilot canopy was “broken in around him” which I take to mean he was pretty well entrapped. After retrieving the pilot, he was treated at UCSD Medial Center.

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