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French Alps Chopper Crash Kills 6


What: Eurocopter group Eurocopter AS 532AL Super Puma
Where: La Palud-sur-Verdon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
When: July 25, 2012, 13 h 40
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: In the village of La Palud-sur-Verdon, a Eurocopter group helicopter crashed, killing the six men aboard, including employees of Eurocopter. The newly assembled chipper was en route to the Albanian army when it apparently “caught a EDF power cable.”

Two of those aboard may have been Albanian. Climbers were dispatched to assist with the recovery.

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