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| The private Dogan news agency said the helicopter, with two pilots, four
foreign nationals and a Turkish citizen on board, crashed on the side
of a highway in Istanbul’s Buyukcekmece district.
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A helicopter crashed in the outskirts of Istanbul on Friday after
apparently hitting a television tower in dense fog, killing at least
five people, reports said.
The private
Dogan news agency said the helicopter, with two pilots, four foreign
nationals and a Turkish citizen on board, crashed on the side of a
highway in Istanbul’s Buyukcekmece district.
The
district's mayor, Hasan Akgun, told private NTV television that he saw
five bodies at the site of the crash. Pieces of the helicopter were
scattered on the highway as well as a green area on the side of the
road.
Eyewitness Fikret Karatekin, a taxi
driver, told CNN-Turk television by telephone that the helicopter
crashed into the tower before crashing on the highway. “It hit the tower
and crashed by spinning,” he said, adding that the highway had been
closed down.
Source: Al arabiya
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