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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 17 > Suspension not about safety, helicopter company maintains

Suspension not about safety, helicopter company maintains

By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
October 17, 2008

GRANTS PASS — The heli-copter company involved in a crash that killed nine people fighting a California wildfire said Thursday the suspension of its firefighting contract by the U.S. Forest Service is about the weight of one of its aircraft and not about safety.

“All our....

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