Brian Helicopter is the stage name of Gareth Holder, a bass player who first came to prominence playing for the punk rock band The shapes. He contines to play professionally, reverting between his real name and his stage name as the fancy takes him. He is also a professional skydiving coach and instructor, currently holding four world records in the sport. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Shapes were an English punk rock group that came into being in the British town of Leamintgon Spa in the latter half of the 1970s. ... Skydiver about to land Parachuting, or skydiving, is a recreational activity, competitive sport and method of deployment of military personnel (and occasionally, firefighters). ...
Colonel Brian D. Allgood, 46, was one of two active-duty soldiers killed in Saturday's crash in Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad.
A Pentagon official has said debris at the crash site indicated the helicopter was downed by a surface-to-air missile, but American military officials in Baghdad have declined to confirm that.
Brian Allgood's wife, Jane, and son, Wyatt, were living in Germany, Allgood's uncle said.
The helicopter ended up facing the runway, with its entire front cockpit crushed, its tail boom broken, one of three main rotors snapped in at least two places, and perched atop two massive yellow inflatable floats.
Brian Alexander, a pilot and aviation attorney with the New York law firm of Kreidler and Kreidler, conceded that a hydraulic failure, "when you see that, it's a worst-case scenario for a helicopter pilot.
Normally, after that process is complete, helicopters involved in crashes are loaded onto a flatbed truck and hauled to a secure area — generally a hangar at Lihu'e Airport — where NTSB officials join representatives of the airframe and engine manufacturers and others for a detailed analysis of the aircraft.
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