Archive for July 27th, 2010

A terrible disaster, a great tragedy occured yesterday. An Israeli helicopter

on a training mission in Romania crashed in a deep ravine in a mountain area, killing six

Israeli and one Romanian Air Force service man. There were bad weather conditions and

and it was impossible to conduct searches at night because of the thick fog surrounding

the crash site. So  far it could not be established what caused the crash, especially as

rescue and search teams could not reach the scene of the accident.

 

In recent years the Israeli Air Force has had a policy of training as much as possible

overseas because of the limited airspace in Israel.One of the benefits of this, is

the opportunity given to pilots to fly long distances in unfamiliar terrain, thus preparing

 them for future long range missions. This has been done in many countries

 around the world.

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