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Offline Rooster Cruiser

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Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« on: November 17, 2007, 03:02:30 AM »
How not to chase a Baja racer...  2 Dead, 4 Injured.  Rumor has it that one of those killed was a Drug Cartel kingpin from Tijuana.  Darned if I know what he was doing watching the race from a helicopter.

http://video.esmas.com/video/sponsored_detail.php?id=13594&tipoOrigen=2#canal_video

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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2007, 06:34:59 PM »
was that just now?
this year?
 ???

looks like he dove down and didn't pull up in time.
or did he lose the engine?
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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2007, 08:49:26 PM »
It's hard to see a whole lot in the video... the results aren't very pretty though...

Did they actually hit a racer?
« Last Edit: November 17, 2007, 08:53:11 PM by Baradium »
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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2007, 09:20:11 PM »
This happened Tuesday, 13 November near Valle Trinidad BC Norte, about 100 miles into the race course.  The press said the guy clipped a wire, which could be the case.  This helo pilot had a reputation as a hot dog, and he was all over the race course barely above the racers in the minutes leading up to the accident.

I spoke to a buddy on the team who was in Ensenada Wednesday night.  Apparently the syndicate wanted the Kingpin's body back so the family could bury him, so they had 50 gunmen raid the city morgue!  They had a rather nasty gunfight with the local police, and an unknown number of police were killed in the fight.

Crazy place, Baja   ::unbelieveable::
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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2007, 09:45:33 PM »
I keep trying to watch it. I see two commercials, and then nothing.
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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2007, 02:18:34 AM »
so he wasn't part of a team then, right!?

I remember SCORE had us keep 500ft AGL and airplane and SCORE helicopters were watching and enforcing the altitudes....

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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2007, 02:40:45 AM »
You are correct, Mike.

I never knew you had flown a SCORE race?!?!  For which team?
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Re: Baja 1000 Helicopter crash video
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2007, 02:59:36 AM »
Team Centrix

They enlisted Panaca Jane 'cause it matched their companies colors.
No trophy truck though. Some sort of Baja Buggy . . .
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