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Barbara McCann
"All we could hear over the headphones was the pilot saying Mayday, Mayday."
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Barbara McCann was a Presenter/Reporter for GMTV in 1996. One Monday morning she, and a number of other journalists, assembled at Belfast City airport to be taken on a mystery trip by a PR company. Three helicopters were waiting to fly them to their destination but one of the helicopters developed a serious technical fault.
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Watch video of how the accident was reported on BBC NI Newsline. In this report there are interviews with Barbara, the helicopter pilot and newspaper editor Jim McDowell, who was also injured in the accident.
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Barbara also spoke on a Radio Ulster programme "Different Folks" a few years ago about her ordeal. You can listen here
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