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Italian Alps: Fatalities in plane-helicopter collision above glacier | DW | 26.01.2019
Seven people were killed Friday when a helicopter and a light tourist aircraft crashed mid-air in the northwestern Italian Alps, mountain rescue officials have said.
Rescue workers recovered two more bodies on Saturday after finding five bodies on Friday.
Alpine rescue corps spokesman Walter Milan said the collision happened happened at an altitude of about 3,000 meters (9,845 feet) over the Rutor glacier in the Aosta Valley, near the French border.
The Italian pilot, a German alpine guide and four German heli-skiers aboard the helicopter were among the dead.
One of the three people on the French four-seater Jodel plane was also killed. The two survivors, a French and a Swiss national, were seriously injured.
7 dead as helicopter, small plane collide over Italian Alps
Death toll from Italy helicopter-plane crash rises to 7
Video: Aftermath of helicopter and tourist plane collision in Italian Alps | Daily Mail Online
Alps plane crash: Five killed in mid-air collision between helicopter and tourist plane
Video: Small plane carrying tourists collides with helicopter in Italian Alps
Seven people were killed Friday when a helicopter and a light tourist aircraft crashed mid-air in the northwestern Italian Alps, mountain rescue officials have said.
Rescue workers recovered two more bodies on Saturday after finding five bodies on Friday.
Alpine rescue corps spokesman Walter Milan said the collision happened happened at an altitude of about 3,000 meters (9,845 feet) over the Rutor glacier in the Aosta Valley, near the French border.
The Italian pilot, a German alpine guide and four German heli-skiers aboard the helicopter were among the dead.
One of the three people on the French four-seater Jodel plane was also killed. The two survivors, a French and a Swiss national, were seriously injured.
7 dead as helicopter, small plane collide over Italian Alps
Death toll from Italy helicopter-plane crash rises to 7
Video: Aftermath of helicopter and tourist plane collision in Italian Alps | Daily Mail Online
Alps plane crash: Five killed in mid-air collision between helicopter and tourist plane
Video: Small plane carrying tourists collides with helicopter in Italian Alps
