[ad_1] Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor’s office reported on Wednesday. Chile’s Legal Medical Service, the state coroner’s office, in the southern city of Valdivia conducted an autopsy overnight on Pinera, who…
[ad_1] An ethnic minority armed group that is battling Myanmar’s military government has said they shot down a helicopter believed to be on a resupply mission in a combat zone in the northern state of Kachin. The helicopter was shot down soon after taking off from an army outpost to return to its base in…
[ad_1] At least five people have been killed after a helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashed near Mount Everest in Nepal on Tuesday. Another person on the aircraft was still missing. According to international media reports, the helicopter was carrying five Mexican nationals and a Nepali pilot and had gone missing earlier in the day. The…
[ad_1] Twenty-two US service members were injured in a helicopter “mishap” in northeast Syria on Sunday, the US military said late on Monday, without disclosing the cause of the incident or detailing the severity of the injuries. According to international media reports, the US military’s Central Command said 10 service members were evacuated to higher-level…
[ad_1] An Indian army helicopter Dhruv with three people on board crashed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir’s Kishtwar district today. According to reports, at least two crew members have been injured. Indian media reported suggested that this is the third crash involving an ALH Dhruv in the last two months. A search and rescue…
