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“Here, this just came off your helicopter!”

  • Shiv Chand
  • Interview by: Jes Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

Guy called Pete Clowes.

He was six foot eight. He was tall.

He had hands that were like shovels.

Great basketball player.

He was on TSW

A you can imagine that his height

is almost above

the rotor blades of a gazelle.

And the gazelle is like a,

kind of rotorblade and a spar at the back,

It's like a goldfish bowl. Right?

Pete goes in, they shut the engine down

The crew went in for a cup of tea

what we're likely to do is,

and then just hit that button there

and the helicopters off and off you go.

So, ten minutes later, Pete comes in

with the side door.

Massive thing just come off in his hand

Right?

There's a toggle there.

It's an emergency thing to pull it,

and it's the

And he come up and he's turned around

this is just come off your helicopter.

And he walked off.

and the pilot's looking at going,

he says come back here.

What do you mean, it just come off?

He says, well, this toggle, when I went in

The I went to pull it out of the way, but,

and just pulled it a bit too hard.

He didn't know his own strength,

Unfortunately, Pete passed away,

and we were at his funeral.

We are we're crying with laughter when,

but again, we got all sorts of characters

I could tell you

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