Two dead, one injured in helicopter crash in Schinias wetland (vid)
A private company's spray helicopter crashed just before 10 on Friday morning in the wetland of Schinias, eastern Attica region.
Attica vice governor Petros Filippou said to Athens Macedonian News Agency that the pilot of the helicopter and a wetland guard were killed while the third passenger, a university student, was injured.
Filippou said that when the helicopter completed the aerial spraying against mosquitoes, the pilot took on board the student and the guard to fly with him over the wetland, however, the helicopter hit the wire barbed fence and crashed.
A 22-year-old man injured in a helicopter crash in Schinias on Friday morning is in stable condition, bearing chest and orthopedic injuries, the hospital where the patient was taken, KAT, said in a statement.
Two people were killed in the crash which happened while the helicopter was spraying insecticides over the areas wetland.
“The patient was orientated in terms of time and pace, stable hemodynamically. A complete clinical-laboratory testing revealed medium-level chest and orthopedic injuries which do not currently require surgical intervention,” the hospital said in a statement, adding the patient will remain in the Department of Thoracic Surgery for further treatment.
It is not known what caused the crash.
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