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Sad Chopper Crash in Colombia.

What: Bell UH-1H
Where: Melgar, Tolima – Colombia
When: March 07, 2011 5:40
Who: 5 fatalities, 4 injuries
Why: Six helicopters were engaged in a training mission when the rotors of two of the UH-1Hs collided. One of the helicopters fell, and caught on fire.

Technician Felipe Pava Rodriguez, technician John Mario Diaz Llanos, Lt. Manuel Alberto Cuspoca, Mexican Lt. Dante Herrera Alarcon, and Capt. Juan Jose Orjuela were killed in the crash. Lt. Hugo Estrada Lopez is one of 4 survivors, all from the 2nd helicopter which managed to make a controlled, if hard, landing.

The cause of the crash has tentatively been attributed to human error.

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