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The pilot of a helicopter that crashed on a sightseeing flight off the Hawaiian island of Kauai last month, killing three passengers, told investigators that the aircraft vibrated and spun before ...

The helicopter then began quickly rotating clockwise. He put the aircraft in an autorotation — a maneuver that allows the rotor to spin with the force of air, rather than by the power of the engine — ...

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