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Whiteout in a Helicopter

6/16/202639 min

Coast Guard helicopter pilot Rick Kenin recalls a Christmas Eve rescue flight that nearly became an emergency of its own.

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  8. Rick Kenin· Guest1:24

    It wasn't long before we started realizing that something just wasn't quite

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