‘Like a Little White Room’

With a passenger yelling “don’t do it,” the pilot of an Airbus Helicopters AS350 B3 made a second attempt at landing on an Alaska ridgeline, but the helicopter became engulfed by swirling snow, struck the ridgeline and rolled backward, killing five of the six people on board, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.

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