'Fuel shortage' led to chopper disaster, damning report finds

Investigation follows deadly plunge into croc-infested river

08 August 2021 - 00:00

By iavan pijoos AND Iavan Pijoos

As Magda Rorich, seriously injured and surrounded by crocodiles, clung to the semisubmerged rotor blade of a helicopter that had plunged into the Crocodile River, the body of her husband, Chris, lay below her, trapped in the sunken cockpit.

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