Super Puma down in Sweden
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Super Puma down in Sweden
SAR Super Puma of the Swedish armed forces crash in the ocean west of Gothenburg today (18/11-2003)
2 reported dead, 3 injured.
Crash occured during training mission, aircraft crashed close to a wessel it was training with.
Article in Swedish: "Aftonbladet newspaper"
2 reported dead, 3 injured.
Crash occured during training mission, aircraft crashed close to a wessel it was training with.
Article in Swedish: "Aftonbladet newspaper"
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Now confirmed that 4 people were killed in last nights crash. Two crewmembers are still missing and the 7th is taken care of at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. His/her??? condition is serious but stable. Since the weather was hard the only way to search for survivors was by boat. A SAR-helicopter (identical to the one who went down) from Rescue Wing in Ronneby were airborne but was forced to return to its base due to bad weather. A police helicopter equiped with heat-camera took off at 0100 local time to search the islands around the crash site in hope of find the two missing crewmembers. My thoughts to the 4 who didnīt make it.
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Death toll rises to 6
STOCKHOLM, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The death toll from the crash of a Swedish military helicopter rose to six on Wednesday, in the military's worst such accident since 1968.
The combined forces rescue helicopter, with seven on board, crashed at sea off Sweden's west coast on Tuesday night during an exercise.
"Six people are dead and one is injured in hospital," said air force spokesman Colonel Christer Pettersson.
Earlier on Wednesday, the military announced that four people had died, two were missing and one had been injured in the helicopter accident in the northern archipelago of Gothenburg.
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The combined forces rescue helicopter, with seven on board, crashed at sea off Sweden's west coast on Tuesday night during an exercise.
"Six people are dead and one is injured in hospital," said air force spokesman Colonel Christer Pettersson.
Earlier on Wednesday, the military announced that four people had died, two were missing and one had been injured in the helicopter accident in the northern archipelago of Gothenburg.
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Last edited by Time Out; 20th November 2003 at 05:45.
