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OBITUARY: Filmmakers Die in Helicopter Crash

By All About Jazz News on February 5, 2012

Sydney&#151 Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday. Police said two people&#151an Australian pilot and an American passenger&#151died Saturday when their helicopter crashed soon after takeoff from an airstrip near Nowra, 97 miles (156 kilometers) north of Sydney, but did not immediately release the victims' identities. Australia's ABC News reported that Wight was piloting the helicopter when it crashed...

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