5 killed in unexplained crash of French military helicopters
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PARIS — Two French military helicopters on a training flight crashed Friday in the woods of Provence from an apparent mid-air collision, killing the five people aboard, officials said.
The crash occurred between the small towns of Cabasse and Carces in the picturesque southern French region of Var, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Saint-Tropez.
A police official said the two aircraft collided. However, prosecutor Xavier Tarabeaux said cautiously that a collision was the working hypothesis “without yet being able to determine where this collision took place and the exact conditions that led to it.”
Police cordoned off roads around the crash site, and some three dozen police and military officials were dispatched to the scene, according to a local gendarme.
