Air force chopper crashes
12/05/2009 14:12 - (SA)
Durban - An air force helicopter crashed into a dam in the upper Tugela area on Tuesday and its three occupants were presumed dead, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
Captain Charmaine Struwig said the helicopter was on its way to Dragon's Peak at 11:00 when it plunged into Woodstock Dam and sank.
"Police divers and SA National Defence Force divers have been called in to assist in the recovery of the wreckage and the bodies of the occupants who are at this stage suspected to have drowned," she said.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known.
Struwig said the identities of the passengers could not be released yet.
- SAPA
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