The Contract  (2006) - this drama by Bruce Beresford, about political
corruption and assassination, features a Eurocopter (MBB) Bölkow Bo-105 police unit, helping search forestland during the manhunt for an escaped
felon. The pilot is killed when bad guys hijack the chopper. Now airborne, one gunman shoots a hiker on the moraine bridge, a second hitman jumps down
from the hovering Bölkow, to chase the hero (John Cusack) through woodlands. When the helicopter tries landing to pickup the villains' boss, our
hero shoots the tail rotor. The chopper flies away trailing smoke, but its pilot loses all control, hits a couple of trees, breaking off the tail boom,
and then we see a spectacular crash sequence with some excellent special effects. Later, the second police helicopter (another Bo-105) spots gunfire
and lands near the campsite cabin.
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