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She did say she had once heard her doctor refer to a country he called “cotter” on the phone.

In about an hour the forest began to thin, and Robin could see the blue smoke coming from the cotters’ chimney pots.

The inspector general said the airline’s maintenance provider failed to insert a cotter pin on a critical flight control component that put some 30,000 passengers at risk.

The aircraft was missing a small cotter safety pin used to hold a nut in place, and that nut came loose - disconnecting pilots’ controls from the rotor, said Maj.

Attorney Timothy Loranger says a missing safety cotter pin caused a malfunction in the helicopter’s tail rotor.