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Rod Leitch, owner of the King’s House Hotel, said: “The people on the helicopter heard a big bang and they landed about 50 yards from the hotel. I understand it was a cracked gearbox.
“They were all OK, but they couldn’t get it shifted by road, it was too heavy. They tried to get a crane but the crane was 50 tonnes and the bridge here is only 25 tonnes.
“They even thought about building a road to get it out.
“They had to strip it all down, to make it as light as possible. A team of RAF mechanics came up and it took them about a week to do it.”
Calum MacLeod, of Glencoe Mountain Resort, said: “They shifted it here from the Kings House car park with a big Chinook and took the rotors off. They moved it here because it’s a big space, so it was a lot more manoeuvrable.”
