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Helicopter crash inquest into instructor Roger Corbin's death hears trainee pilot 'woke up trapped' in wreckage

Highlighted in red, the ATSB report identifies the reduction in cabin size in the aftermath of the crash. (Supplied: ATSB)

A trainee pilot who survived a helicopter crash that killed veteran Tasmanian pilot Roger Corbin has told an inquest that he has just a single "picture" in his mind of the moment of impact before he "woke up trapped in the aircraft". 

The four-day inquest, heard before coroner Olivia McTaggart, has looked into the circumstances around the death of Mr Corbin, who died in 2017 when a helicopter he was using in a training flight nosedived into the ground at Hobart Airport, killing him instantly.

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