A Peruvian National Police Bell UH-1H with three aboard was en route from Tangier Island airport 8:05 p.m. when it crashed over an area of coca cultivation during night training.

The wreckage was located near Tingo Maria Peru on La Moyuna Mountain.

Base control indicated that before communication broke off at 8:00 pm, the helicopter was in distress.

The helicopter worked the area of ??Leoncio Prado and Alto Huallaga (Tingo María) under drug control in cooperation with the United States.

The three crew, two officers and a sergeant of the Peruvian police members were retrieved and taken to the air base in Tingo Maria. Search teams located the helicopter five minutes from a local police base.

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Where: Near the U.S. Forest Service building in Kamiah, in the northern Idaho Clearwater Region
When: August 31 2010
Who: 3 fatalities:Larry Barrett, 47, of Lewiston, Idaho, Dani Schiff, 34, also of Lewiston, pilot Perry J. Krinitt, 43, of Belgrade, Mont.
Why: The biologists were counting salmon spawning nests on the nearby Selway River.

The crash is attributed to an apparent mechanical malfunction in the helicopter. Witnesses say the helicopter was making popping sounds and that material was coming off it before it nosedived straight down. The pilot struggled to keep the helicopter from crashing into a nearby school. It ended up in a driveway, damaging a home and a trailer.

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Former mayor of Ponte Alta do Tocantins Dead in Plane Crash


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Aviation experts arrived on Monday, the 10th of February, 2014, at Palms to investigate the causes of the accident. The site will be preserved, trace evidence will be preserved and the wreckage of the aircraft remaining in its original position.

The former Mayor Cleyton Maia was in a crash in the same aircraft in 2008.

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Small Plane Crash-Lands in Florida Everglades; 2 Injured

A Lancair LNC 4 aircraft crash-landed onto a levee in the Everglades, near Broward-Palm Beach county line, Florida, on August 30.

The four-seater aircraft, which took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and was heading to Lynchburg, Virginia, crash-landed due to engine failure. Authorities said the aircraft cartwheeled and burst into flames upon landing.

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Authorities said the pilot had reported low oil pressure shortly after the plane departed from Fort Lauderdale airport.

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Final Flight: Jim’s Big Sky Kauai At Rest


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Where: Hanapepe, Kauai, Hawai
When: Feb 15 2011, 11:41 am
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The ultralight is based out of Port Allen Airport in Hanapepe. Rescue services with a boat, jet skis and the county’s new helicopter, Air-1 searched for five hours for survivors in overcast weather and murky water, and found only debris.

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Mexico Police Air Crash Kills 3

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