GREAT FALLS, Va. — Rick Rahim, a pilot with 13 years of helicopter experience, used a string tied to his hovering helicopter to extract his son’s loose tooth.
A video, posted to Facebook last month, shows the 7-year-old child standing in the grass near an airport runway with a long string tied to the helicopter.
The multiple camera video, with a soaring Flight of the Valkyries soundtrack, concludes with Rahim describing his helicopter parenting and the importance of having fun as a parent.
“You’ve got to do everything safe in life, and that’s what we did today,” Rahim said.
To pull the string tight Rahim flew backward away from the child.
“What we did today was perfectly fun and perfectly safe,” Rahim said.