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Helicopter crashes when wrong control lever is pushed — by a penguin
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Helicopter crashes when wrong control lever is pushed — by a penguin

Carla Sinclair
Apr 11, 2025
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Image: Chinstrap penguin; Kyle Waters/Shutterstock

A helicopter crashed in South Africa when the wrong control lever was pushed — not by the pilot, but by a penguin sitting right next to him.

The "unsecured" penguin was sitting in a cardboard box, which was on the lap of a passenger sitting next to the pilot. But when the helicopter took off, the box slid…

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