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Savannah Meacham and Laine Clark

HISTORICAL FACTS: Fatal hotel chopper crash could have been far worse | History Defined

A ground crew employee at an aviation company crashed into a hotel in Cairns. (Brian Cassey/AAP PHOTOS)

A pilot who died in a crash on a Queensland hotel roof "misappropriated" the helicopter after a farewell party at the aircraft charter company.

Nautilus Aviation said the man who flew the chopper had been an employee for four months in a ground-crew position.

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