USAF: Helicopter fall victim used own equipment

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — An Air Force report says a civilian who led crews of volunteers through the Sierra Nevada mountains cleaning up marijuana grow sites wasn’t properly secured to his harness when he fell to his death from a California Air National Guard helicopter.

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