The final report on the accident, which took the life of Huntington Beach Police Officer Nick Vella, was released by the National Transportation Safety Board last month.
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Vella, who died in a helicopter crash off the coast of Newport Beach last year, is the 54th Orange County officer who was killed in the line of duty to be placed on the memorial wall.
In this is week’s episode of The Hangar Z Podcast, Jon Gray and Jeff Ratkovich sit down with RJ Garwood, who recently retired from the Huntington Beach PD Air Support Unit.