In the Anna Pigeon mystery, "Hard Truth" at the end of the book,
she's one of 4 people in a helicopter. They fly out to recover a body only to find that the person is still alive and needs to be medevac'd out. The pilot goes, the patient goes, the paramedic goes, and the District Ranger goes, but Anna gets her seat literally pulled and has to wait for the return flight.
So my question is, what kind of helicopter would that be? They were going to haul out a body, so they expected to have that cargo with them on the return trip, so why did they allow 4 people to go in the first place?
I'm think that it's a Bo-105 variant. The pilot and the District Ranger would sit upfront and they pulled her seat to give the paramedic room to work on the patient.
Alternately, they were expecting to remove a corpse many hours dead in the wild and were going to fly back with it in a Stokes Stretcher external to the bird. Now that the person has to be inside of whatever helicopter it is, there's only designed room for three and patient.
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Thoughts?
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