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Colibri Crashes Stormy Mountainside in San Jose de Ocoa


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Contact photographer Juan Carlos Porcella

What: Dominican Consul Eurocopter EC120 Colibri en route from Santo Domingo to San Jose de Ocoa
Where: San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic
When: 15-OCT-2009 at 14:55
Who: 3 aboard, all fatalities
Why: The Colibri light helicopter took off for Ocoa from the Hotel Santo Domingo‘s heliport at 2:35 p.m. but crashed into a mountain in the south of the country in heavy rain, killing all occupants (the pilot and two passengers: first lieutenant Wilker Diaz, Manuel Checo, Yendi Vásquez)

The last communication with the pilot was at 2:55 p.m. when he told ATC he had Ocoa in sight.
The Dominican consul in Haiti, Carlos Castillo—whose helicopter it is—was not aboard.

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