Bundeswehr helicopter crashes in Lower Saxony | ' | '
According to the police, the helicopter went down near the Aerzen town of Dehmke. The crash site is located near a forest area, said a spokesman for the community Aerzen. There were fires broke out. The fire department is in action. To the cause of the accident are still no information.
The Bundeswehr confirmed the crash of a training helicopter in Lower Saxony. The machine type Eurocopter EC 135 was at Dehmkerbrock, about 30 kilometers west of Hameln, an accident, said a Bundeswehr spokesman for the German Press Agency. There were two people on board. The machine belongs to the International Helicopter Training Center in Bückeburg, which is located about 30 kilometers from the accident site.
The EC 135 is a lightweight, twin-engine, multi-purpose helicopter primarily used for air rescue and surveillance tasks. The Bundeswehr initially made no information on the fate of the people on board.
Two jets are doomed
Just last week, two Bundeswehr Eurofighters collided with air strikes and crashed near the village of Nossentiner Hütte in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. An instructor pilot had saved himself with the ejection seat and survived the accident injured. The pilot of the second machine crashed. The third machine remained intact and returned to Laage. No one was injured on the ground by the crashed machines, but wreckage was found on a sports field, a field and near a kindergarten in Nossentiner Hütte. The recovery of the aircraft wrecks and the search for the cause continue.
On Monday morning lifted two Eurofighter machines in Laage near Rostock to practice flights, as a spokesman for the squadron 73 "Steinhoff" said. There are supposed to be two starts every day, just like before the crash.
kle / uh (dpa, afp)
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