people are dead following the crash of a government helicopter in southern South Korea.The state-run Korea Forest Service says that one of its helicopters went down into a lake in Yeongam today during a training mission. The lake is about 240 miles (380km) south of Seoul.Service official Choi Kwan-muk says that rescuers have found the dead bodies of the helicopter's pilot and two deputy pilots.Choi...
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Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter manufactured by the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), crashed during a military parade in Ecuador on Tuesday injuring its two pilots. The crashed Dhruv, which was a conventional, utility version of the helicopter, is among the five helicopters sold to Ecuador in March this year. Sources at the HAL toldthat the accident took place over Quito’s Mariscal Sucre International...
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a major setback to India's efforts to market its indigenous helicopters in the overseas market, a Dhruv helicopter sold to the Ecuadorean Air Force on Wednesday crashed in Quito during a military parade, leaving two of the pilots injured.The air mishap also forced the Ecuadorean Air Force to ground the six other 'Dhruv' Advanced Light Helicopters (ALHs) in its fleet till the probe it ordered into the...
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Kathmandu - One person was killed and five injured in a helicopter crash in a remote part of western Nepal on Sunday, media reports said.The Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter belonging to domestic carrier Manang Air crashed in Humla district, about 500 kilometres north-west of the capital Kathmandu, the independent Kantipur Television said.The report said a Russian flight engineer was killed and another...
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a major setback to India's efforts to market its indigenous helicopters in the overseas market, a Dhruv helicopter sold to the Ecuadorian Air Force on Wednesday crashed in Quito during a military parade, leaving two of the pilots injured.The air mishap also forced the Ecuadorian Air Force to ground the six other Dhruv advanced light helicopters in its fleet till the probe it ordered into the mishap...
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Indian-built Dhruv, or Advanced Light Helicopter, has crashed at a military parade in Quito, Ecuador. Both the pilots of the helicopter are safe.The helicopter was one of seven sold by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to the Ecuadorian Armed Forces for 45 million dollars. As a result of the accident, the government has suspended the use of the remaining 6 helicopters, which includes the one used...
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will provide five helicopters and 103.5 million dollars in aid to Pakistan's law enforcement and border security agencies to enhance their capabilities, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.Clinton announced the aid package during her meeting yesterday with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.She said five Huey-II helicopters will be delivered to the Pakistani interior ministry's air wing and...
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Ecuador on Tuesday suspended use of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's (HAL) Dhruv helicopters after one of the aircrafts crashed during a military parade in Ecuadorean capital Quito.The advanced light helicopter (ALH) was flying in formation with two other choppers during the 89th anniversary celebrations of the Ecuadorean Armed forces when it suddenly veered off course and slammed to the ground. The...
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Rupert Thorneloe feared soldiers would die because they were being forced to travel by roadLieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe: said the system for managing helicopter movements was 'not fit for purpose'. Photograph: Ministry of Defence/PAforeshadowed his own death by warning that a shortage of helicopters was endangering troops.told his superiors that soldiers would die because they were being forced...
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shortage of helicopters was highlighted in a damning e-mail to the Ministry of Defence by the most senior British officer to be killed in Afghanistan shortly before his death.In a warning that as good as described his own death less than a month later, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe told his superiors that troops' lives were being put at risk by the lack of helicopters."I have tried to avoid griping...
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