Monday, March 05, 2007

Moose Brings Down Helicopter

from Breitbart

A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry Alaskan moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground. Neither the pilot nor the biologist was injured, but the moose was maimed by the spinning rotor and had to be euthanized.

The wildlife biologists shot the animal with a tranquilizer dart and the pilot tried to maneuvered the helicopter to keep the animal from collapsing into nearby water and drowning. The moose then started to move, and then the helicopter began backing off and try to keep the moose out in the open but instead the moose charged the helicopter.

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