Costs of Mt. Hood Tragedy Calculated
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Financial costs are piling up from last week’s climbing tragedy on the snowy slopes of Mt. Hood, although the final price tag may never be known.
A Pave Hawk HH-60 helicopter that crashed while trying to pluck injured climbers from near the 11,240-foot summit was valued at $9.3 million.
The cost of investigating what caused the Air Force Reserve helicopter to crash and of what it will ultimately cost to remove it from the side of the mountain have not been calculated.
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