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Alex Killorn broke a tie off a scramble at 9:09 of the second period, Lukas Dostal stopped 29 shots and the Ducks beat the Utah Mammoth 4-1 on Friday night to pad their Pacific Division lead.

After the puck was cleared off the goal line behind goalie Vitek Vanecek, the Ducks’ Beckett Sennecke ended up with it on the left side and slipped a pass to Killorn for a shot before Vanecek was set. Killorn also had two assists.

Ryan Poehling, Cutter Gauthier and Mikael Granlund also scored to help the Ducks — playing without suspended defenseman Radko Gudas — rebound from a 3-2 overtime loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday night at home. They moved three points ahead of Edmonton in the division.

Gudas served the fourth game of a five-game suspension for kneeing Auston Matthews in a loss at Toronto on March 12. Matthews tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

Poehling tied it with 6:23 left in the first, beating Vanecek with a nifty move on a shorthanded break. Poehling took a pass from Killorn, sped down the left side, cut right and shot against the grain to the left.

The Ducks (38-27-4) put it away with two empty-net goals, with Gauthier scoring his 36th goal on the first.

Dylan Guenther scored his 34th goal of the season for Utah — at 1:48 of the first of the Mammoth’s second shot on goal.

Utah remained six points ahead of the Kings for the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The Mammoth (36-28-6) opened a four-game homestand. They had won two straight on the road, beating Dallas 6-3 on Monday night to snap a four-game losing streak and topping Vegas 4-0 Thursday night.

Up next for the Ducks: vs. Buffalo at Honda Center on Sunday.

The largest and most powerful helicopter has been in service since 1977

The Mil Mi-26 (codename: Halo) is a Russian-built helicopter and currently holds the title of the world’s largest. Having taken its maiden flight in 1977, the Mi-26 was initially built to transport heavy cargo to isolated locations inaccessible by conventional aircraft.

This huge helicopter boasts rear-loading doors and can carry up to 20 tonnes. Aviation specialists at Key Aero have named it the “undisputed king of military heavy lift helicopters”.

It measures 40 metres in length, making it “taller than a giraffe”, and is also the world’s most powerful helicopter.

“Two 11,400bhp engines allow it to carry loads weighing up to 20 tonnes. In 1982, the aircraft set the world record for the heaviest mass lifted to 2,000 metres by carrying a load of 56,768 kilograms, a record that still stands today.”

Aviation experts said it is “so big it can operate as a mobile hospital”. Perhaps the Mi-26’s most extraordinary cargo was a 20-ton, frozen woolly mammoth, reports the Express.

Back in 1999, the helicopter airlifted the preserved remains of a 23,000-year-old frozen Woolly Mammoth retrieved from Siberia’s frozen Taimyr Peninsula.

Fair Lifts notes: “The Mi-26 is often the first choice for missions that involve transporting heavy machinery, including armoured vehicles, generators, and even small aircraft.

“Its eight-blade main rotor and twin-turbine engines deliver a unique blend of raw power and flight stability, enabling it to operate in some of the world’s harshest environments, from Siberian tundras to Middle Eastern deserts.”

The helicopter continues to serve actively today, mainly deployed by the Russian Aerospace Forces, but it’s also used across other nations, including China and India.

The largest aircraft in the world is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, a remarkable plane built by the Soviet Union, capable of transporting “52 mature elephants “.