{"id":2262,"date":"2012-11-21T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/laval-pilot-survives-helicopter-cras\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:59","slug":"laval-pilot-survives-helicopter-cras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/laval-pilot-survives-helicopter-cras\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval pilot survives helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bruno Pich\u00e9 is a lucky man. The 48-year-old Laval resident was relatively unscathed after the home- built helicopter that he was piloting plunged into Lac Britannique, near St. Sixte, Quebec, Nov. 18. No one else was aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what we understand,\u201d S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec Sgt. Marc Tessier told <i style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The Suburban<\/i> in an interview, \u201cwhen he arrived at the lake at about 1 p.m., Sunday, he was blinded by the sun and misjudged the distance of the helicopter from the lake.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the helicopter hit the water, it caught on fire,\u201d Sgt. Tessier continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot extricated himself from the helicopter. His brother, [Richard Pich\u00e9] who had been awaiting him on the shore, saw everything transpire and paddled a kayak to the crash site, where he rescued his brother from the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot was taken by ambulance to hospital in Buckingham, Quebec, and released after it was determined that he had suffered only minor injuries.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cS\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec notified the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which will follow up with the pilot and determine whether it will pursue a further investigation,\u201d said Sgt. Tessier. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the blaze aboard the helicopter was extinguished when it sank. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Quebec environment ministry was notified and will determine whether the helicopter needs to be recovered from the bottom of the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-M_QcGB-NngA\/UK1niWC7LFI\/AAAAAAAAAQ4\/G1SV6Z4SRec\/s1600\/121120+Bruno+Piche%CC%81+helicopter.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121120-Bruno-Piche\u0301-helicopter.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b>Bruno Pich\u00e9&#8217;s fibreglass homebuilt helicopter now lies at the bottom of Lac Brittannique.<\/b><\/div>\n<p>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[&#8216;GoogleAnalyticsObject&#8217;]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){<br \/>\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),<br \/>\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)<br \/>\n  })(window,document,&#8217;script&#8217;,&#8217;\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js&#8217;,&#8217;ga&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>  ga(&#8216;create&#8217;, &#8216;UA-45892555-1&#8217;, &#8216;robertfrankmedia.blogspot.com&#8217;);<br \/>\n  ga(&#8216;send&#8217;, &#8216;pageview&#8217;);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Bruno Pich\u00e9 is a lucky man. The 48-year-old Laval resident was relatively unscathed after the home- built helicopter that he was piloting plunged into Lac Britannique, near St. Sixte, Quebec, Nov. 18. No one else was aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. \u201cFrom what we understand,\u201d S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laval pilot survives helicopter crash - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/laval-pilot-survives-helicopter-cras\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laval pilot survives helicopter crash - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Bruno Pich\u00e9 is a lucky man. 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