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“It was as if he had stepped out of the wreckage, taken some steps and then lay down on the ground,” she told Coroner Alexandra Cunninghame during an inquest in Queenstown on Wednesday. James Patterson Gardner had been on a training flight in February 2015 with Over The Top instructor Stephen Anthony Combe, 42, of Wānaka.
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As two more people die in a Robinson helicopter crash, a US lawyer representing crash victims and families labels the helicopter unsafe and unairworthy . (Video first published in November, 2016). In 2016, a Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) report into the crash found no clear reason for the crash, but concluded that the rotor blades had struck the cabin.