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Anonymous ID: 1827ab Jan. 28, 2020, 9:07 p.m. No.7951019 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1032

>>7950938

Instagram video from 21 weeks ago has 72ex with white and blue.

Couple of other Istagram pics from Lorenzo Lamas

>>7951032

I suppose it's possible actor fag shot the helicopter proposal video before 21 weeks ago. But it's looking like yes

>>7950938

LA times article about 2008 Island Express crash killing 3 people

http://archive.ph/Edlgc

California

3 killed, 3 hurt in helicopter crash on Catalina Island

By Jason Song

May 25, 2008

|12 AM

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Three people were killed and three others were injured, two critically, when a sightseeing helicopter crashed Saturday morning near Two Harbors on the remote west side of Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said.

FOR THE RECORD:

Helicopter crash: Credits accompanying photos of a helicopter crash on Santa Catalina Island on Sunday twice misspelled the name of photographer Rigoberto Balderas. It was given as Rigaberto Balteras in a photo in the A section, and Rigaberto Balderas in the California section. —

The helicopter, registered to the sightseeing company Island Express, crashed about 9:30 a.m. near the Little Red Schoolhouse’s baseball diamond, a short distance from the town’s only hotel, the Banning House Lodge, Deputy Denise Fuchs said.

A witness saw a fireball coming from the exhaust pipe of the helicopter as it flew over the water, sheriff’s officials said at an afternoon news conference.

The sky was overcast but there was negligible wind and no rain at the time of the accident, officials said.

Two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene, said Los Angeles County Supervising Fire Dispatcher Melanie Flores. They could not immediately be identified, a spokesman from the coroner’s office said. Two people with critical injuries were flown to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance. Another injured person was taken to County-USC Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles, Flores said.

A woman who answered the phone at the Island Express offices declined to comment.

According to its website, Island Express offers exclusive helicopter tours of Southern California and Santa Catalina Island.

The company, whose site says it flies “four top-of-the-line turbine helicopters,” was founded in 1982 and operates out of a base near the Queen Mary in Long Beach. It advertises private tours for groups of up to six people and employs three mechanics, according to the website.

In 1985, an Island Express helicopter collided with another helicopter from San Pedro after picking up passengers at Avalon, Catalina’s largest town. One person was killed and 11 others were injured.

The Island Express Eurocopter AS350, built in 1984, departed from Long Beach around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Allen Kenitzer, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. It picked up five passengers on the island, Kenitzer said.

The flight’s destination was not known, he said.

A witness said the wreckage was confined to a small area in a grassy field near the town’s harbor.

The crash ignited a small brush fire, which was quickly extinguished.

Two Harbors is the smaller and more isolated of Catalina’s two towns.

The accident came at the beginning of Catalina’s tourist season. The island attracts an estimated 1 million visitors a year.

Before Saturday, the island and its surrounding waters had been the site of 16 deaths in seven fatal aircraft crashes – all small, private aircraft, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The deadliest was a Christmas Eve 2003 daytime flight out of Long Beach that crashed into a mountain, killing all five people aboard.

jason.song@latimes.com

Times staff writers Carla Hall and Jean-Paul Renaud contributed to this report.

>>7950992

Interdasting find.

Thinking island express may be the dig.

They claim they are all over celeb instagrams.

Flights to Catalina, wasn't the Standard chopper crash en route to Cataline?

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>>7951109

Moar

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Right-hand man killed in crash of helicopter on Catalina Island

By Kelly Puente | kpuente@scng.com | Orange County Register

PUBLISHED: May 29, 2008 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 8:33 am

LONG BEACH – Family members on Wednesday remembered John Terry as a motivated 25-year-old who loved his job as an assistant manager for Island Express, a Long Beach-based helicopter company.

Terry was riding in a helicopter operated by Island Express when it crashed on Catalina Island Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others.

The Eurocopter AS-350 reportedly took off from Long Beach and went down in drizzly weather about 9:20a.m. near the Banning House Lodge at Two Harbors.

Also killed was the aircraft’s pilot, Emeric Maillet, 33, of Lakewood, and Tania Hurd, a 46-year-old culinary arts teacher at John Burroughs High School in Burbank.

The three injured, two women and one man, were transported to area hospitals. Two were critically injured. Reports of their conditions were not available on Wednesday.

Authorities are still not sure what caused the crash. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Terry Williams said all of the wreckage was recovered on Tuesday and that the helicopter’s turboshaft engine is being shipped back to the manufacturer for a “teardown” analysis. The entire investigation could take up to a year, he said.

Terry’s brother, Tony Natale, said the family is in a deep state of shock. They’re also dealing with another loss. Less than two week’s earlier, Terry’s aunt, Cindy Donahoo, died of a heart attack.

“It’s been a rough week,” Natale said.

Terry’s family has houses in Avalon on Catalina and in Long Beach, his brother said. Terry grew up traveling between the two cities until he started high school in Avalon.

When he turned 18, he moved permanently to Long Beach where he got a job with Island Express. Pete Ruiz, station manager for Island Express, said Terry was his “right-hand man.”

“He was the most organized person I ever worked with,” Ruiz said.

Terry was a ramp agent who would accompany the pilot on flights to help unload the equipment and embark passengers.

Ruiz said Island Express, a relatively small company with about 21 employees, was in mourning this week.

It is a family-run business that has been operating helicopter tours out of Long Beach since 1982. Owner John Moore was not available for comment Wednesday.

Maillet, originally from France, had worked at the company for more than six years and was well-respected pilot, he said.

“It’s been really hard. We’ve never had a loss like this before,” Ruiz said. “We love both of them like family. We always hung out after work; for birthday parties.”

Ruiz said no one at the company can speculate on what caused the crash.

“We’re letting the investigators handle it,” he said. “We’re just taking it day by day.”

Terry loved working at Island Express and was moving up in the company, his brother said. He was planning to getting his pilot’s license and was going to re-enroll at Cal State Long Beach in the fall.

“He was a great, well-motivated person,” Natale said.

He also loved his dog, a golden retriever named Josh.

kelly.puente@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1305

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