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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s4bFeoZ1w0
White Sparks/flashes at the EC145 from about 0.04 to 0.20 .Schoelcher: Un helitreuillage spectaculaire
The electric engineers inspect the broken cables from about 0.52 .
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=223712
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=223712Date: 03-APR-2019
Time: mid afternoo
Type: Eurocopter EC 145 (BK 117 C-2)
Owner/operator: Sécurité Civile / French government
Registration: F-....
C/n / msn:
An Eurocopter EC145 (BK117-C2) hit three high voltage power lines near the shoreline of Schoelcher, Martinique.
The CRW had just winched up a person out of the sea aprox. 150m offshore.
The rescue-diver and the casualty were hanging on the winch aprox. 5 m below the helicopter, when it flew into the power lines.
Huge sparks arised from the front radar-dome as well as from the winch-housing on the right hand side.
The winch-cable released and both persons impacted the terrain below, both of them survived the undesirable dropping.
The helicopter, callsign "Dragon 972", operated by the french government, civil-protection-branch, managed to land safely.