［秋风时事］Taiwan military helicopter crash kills 8(CHINADAILY)
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Taiwan military helicopter crash kills
8
(AP)
Updated: 2007-04-04 16:40
TAIPEI -- The bodies of three Taiwanese servicemen
whose helicopter smashed into a radio tower in southern Taiwan were
pulled from the mountaintop structure Wednesday, raising the crash
death toll to eight, a rescue operation spokesman
said.
The Vietnam War-era UH-1H helicopter flew into the radio
transmission tower near the southern city of Kaohsiung on Tuesday
during bad weather.
The bodies of five other crew members were recovered shortly after
the incident.
A search and rescue team discovered the final three crew members'
bodies stuck in the girders of the tower around noon Wednesday,
rescue service spokesman Hsiao Guo-bing said.
"The bodies were found high up in the tower," he
said.
On Tuesday Taiwan Radio quoted an unidentified witness as saying
the pilot of the decades-old helicopter appeared to be unaware that
the craft was approaching a mountain peak when the crash
occurred.
"The mountain top was concealed by fog," the witness was quoted as
saying. "The pilot apparently did not see the top and attempted to
fly over it."
Fog and light rain persisted in the area
Wednesday.
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