A U.S. helicopter crashed during a training flight in Treviso countryside. The military aircraft, a Blackhawk transport of troops, had left the U.S. military base in Aviano, Friuli. The dead are six: five other soldiers were wounded, one of them in serious condition. The helicopter crashed in an unpopulated area, but very close to highway A27.
The Blackhawk crashed near the banks of the Piave River between the towns of Spreyton and Maser (Treviso). The crash occurred about two hundred meters from the A27 motorway bridge that, as a precautionary measure, has been closed. A team of fire brigade arrived in Venice has tamed the helicopter of a fire that had developed after the fall of the medium and has offered first aid to the seven U.S. crew members injured.
The vehicle was in flight training in the vicinity of Saint Lucia di Piave where he was carrying out operations of loading and unloading on the banks of the Piave fume. U.S. military helicopter there were eleven, all stationed in the USAF base at Aviano. The area of \u200b\u200bthe crash was now manned by the police provincial command, led by col. Paul Nardone. The soldiers were loaded onto helicopters and relief that landed on the highway bridge where there are ambulances.
were taken to hospitals in Treviso and Conegliano, where they were activated emergency procedures of the case. The incident, the public prosecutor has opened an investigation file with the hypothesis that crime plane crash. The chief prosecutor Antonio Fojadelli announced that the body of the helicopter and the area where the impact occurred on the banks of the river Piave were attached.
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