agents Yesid Vidal | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 4 Fatalities in Colombian Helicopter Crash https://airflightdisaster.com/4-fatalities-in-south-american-helicopter-crash/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:15:11 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=2729 Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Javier Franco TOPPER What: Huey II police helicopter Where: crashed in South Colombia When: March 4 Who: four people on board; 4 fatalities: Lts. Juan Valero and Hernan Leal – the pilot and co-pilot, respectively – and agents Yesid Vidal and Gustavo Ibañez. Why: The...

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Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Javier Franco TOPPER
What: Huey II police helicopter
Where: crashed in South Colombia
When: March 4
Who: four people on board; 4 fatalities: Lts. Juan Valero and Hernan Leal – the pilot and co-pilot, respectively – and agents Yesid Vidal and Gustavo Ibañez.
Why: The helicopter was missing since early Tuesday. It was located by search and rescue teams in the southern Colombian province of Putumayo. The wreckage was found 10 km from the town of Villa Garzon, Republic of Colombia. The helicopter’s last known operation was returning from transporting workers with the government to manually eradicate local illegal coca crops; the last known communication was with air traffic controllers at 1.25 a.m. Tuesday.

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