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Meeker's helper, Thaddäus Kobrzynski, 26, literally threw the wounded girl into the cabin. An instant later, the girl's mother also stumbled, apparently wounded. Kobrzynski sprinted 100 ft. down a grassy hill to help her. At that moment a bullet shattered Meeker's left elbow and hit a rib, a second slammed into the main combustion chamber of the chopper's turbine and a third struck near the fuel tank. "They're aimed shots," Meeker remembers thinking. "In five seconds we'll all be dead...
...screamed to Kobrzynski to abandon the woman and come back, but his voice was drowned by the turbines' whine. Working the controls with his right hand, Meeker lifted off and hovered briefly, trying to draw the guns away from his friend. Realizing that he could no longer help him, Meeker raced for the Austrian border four miles away. Blood from his wounds made his maps unreadable, and the damaged turbine gulped twice as much fuel as it was supposed to. Luckily, Meeker knew his way through the difficult terrain and dangerous wind currents. He set the chopper down where...
JOSEPH S. KOBRZYNSKI...
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