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TEN News Helicopter Crash - Sat 19th Jan 2013

On Saturday 19th January 2013, the Channel TEN Perth News helicopter was filming a truck rollover on Weir Road at Baskerville, in Perth's Swan Valley, when it was forced to make an emergency landing. The TEN News cameraman and pilot escaped uninjured after the helicopter made a crash landing on a lightly timbered rural property, that was surrounded by dry grass and undulating terrain. The chopper came to a rest on its side, having lost its tail rotor in the accident. The dazed cameraman Adam Delmage jumped out the wreckage, followed a few minutes later by the pilot Paul Debenham, who has 40 years of helicopter experience and works for the aircraft company Heliwest. As a precautionary measure, Mr. Delmage was taken to Royal Perth Hospital with back pain, but escaped serious injury, and was given the all clear and released. The pilot did not require hospital treatment, other than for shock. Mr Delmage says he knew to brace for the impact as less than two months prior had completed the station's compulsory Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) course. It was heartening to see the empathy shown by fellow News cameramen Luke Williams of Channel Seven and Jon Kerr of Channel Nine. The event was captured by the cameras of all major metropolitan stations: 7,2,9 and 10. Adam Delmage capturing the crippled aircraft's descent as it spiralled to the earth and Jon Kerr capturing a clear shot of it hitting the ground. Seven also captured the event, though their vision of the crash was partly obscured by a fire truck. The Seven reporter went on to say that TEN had two previous helicopter incidents, prior to this one, in which no one was injured. Though this was the first such emergency for the current TEN helicopter company in 21 years, since it was formed in 1992. It was two years ago that Channel Ten in Perth, signed an agreement with the largest wholly-owned Western Australian onshore helicopter company Heliwest, to provide a Bell Jetranger 206 lll to the station's news division for the following six years. Under the agreement Channel Ten has a helicopter at its disposal around the clock. TEN equipped the aircraft with a digital broadcast microwave link (both send and receive) and a 'lipstick' camera to enable reporter live crosses as well as specialised mounting, harnessing and safety equipment for the camera and camera operator in the rear of the machine. It can receive and relay microwave signals in the event that a link truck on the ground cannot establish a reliable signal to Channel Ten's receive points, such as in hilly terrain.