A helicopter pilot said in court on Thursday he and two of his passengers had escaped serious injury by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted in 2019, killing 22.
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A pilot testified in New Zealand Thursday during a trial against three tourism directors charged with safety breaches over the 2019 White Island volcano eruption.
Brian Depauw had only been working as a tour operator for three or four weeks and was making his first unsupervised flight the day the volcano erupted.