Pilot comfortable
The helicopter pilot whose life was saved by his dying companion after a crash in Fiordland more than two weeks ago is now in a comfortable condition in the spinal unit at Burwood Hospital. The pilot, Robert David Richardson, aged 38, of Te Anau, was transferred at the week-end from the intensive care unit at Christchurch Hospital. The police said that Mr Richardson owed his life to
Alan MacDonald, aged 25, * professional deer hunter, who died six hours after the helicopter crashed in thick bush on the afternoon of August 12. Before he died Mr MacDonald wrapped Mr Richardson in survival blankets, made him comfortable, and triggered an emergency locator beacon. It was two days before a searching helicopter picked up Mr Richardson and the body of his companion.
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Press, 28 August 1979, Page 6
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