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7th Mar 2004, 15:25
Tokyo-AP -- A helicopter chartered by a T-V news station has crashed while filming a highway accident in central Japan, killing all four people aboard.
Police say witnesses tell them the helicopter went down after it hit a power line.
A reporter and cameraman were surveying the collision of a truck and van about 150 miles southwest of Tokyo when the helicopter crashed. The pilot and mechanic were also killed.
The 53-year old pilot was a veteran with 55-hundred hours of flying experience.
source (http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1693431)
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Two people were dead and two missing after a helicopter chartered by a television company to cover a traffic accident in central Japan crashed and exploded, police said today.
Two bodies were recovered from the crash site at Nagiso town, some 200km west of Tokyo, prefectural police said.
The helicopter appeared to have hit power lines and crashed just before 10am, police said.
"The helicopter hit the power cables, broke up in mid-air and then fell straight down," one witness told public broadcaster NHK.
The four people in the helicopter included a 26-year-old female reporter, a male cameraman in his 30s and a pilot and mechanic in their 50s, NHK said.
source (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8896033%255E1702,00.html)
Police say witnesses tell them the helicopter went down after it hit a power line.
A reporter and cameraman were surveying the collision of a truck and van about 150 miles southwest of Tokyo when the helicopter crashed. The pilot and mechanic were also killed.
The 53-year old pilot was a veteran with 55-hundred hours of flying experience.
source (http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1693431)
and
Two people were dead and two missing after a helicopter chartered by a television company to cover a traffic accident in central Japan crashed and exploded, police said today.
Two bodies were recovered from the crash site at Nagiso town, some 200km west of Tokyo, prefectural police said.
The helicopter appeared to have hit power lines and crashed just before 10am, police said.
"The helicopter hit the power cables, broke up in mid-air and then fell straight down," one witness told public broadcaster NHK.
The four people in the helicopter included a 26-year-old female reporter, a male cameraman in his 30s and a pilot and mechanic in their 50s, NHK said.
source (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8896033%255E1702,00.html)