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Thai news crew escapes helicopter crash
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September 11, 2010, Saturday
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A Thai news crew escaped safely today after their helicopter hit overhead electrical wires, made a hard landing on a pier and then sank into the Chao Phraya River outside Bangkok, news reports said.
The helicopter, chartered by the state-run National Broadcasting Services of Thailand to cover flooding, was hovering near a riverside Buddhist temple on Ko Kret, an island north of the capital, when its tail got tangled in the wires.
The pilot brought the helicopter down on a nearby pier, allowing all four people on board - the pilot, co-pilot, a cameraman and a female reporter - to escape before the pier collapsed from the chopper's weight and sank into the river, according to the Matichon and Thai Rath newspapers' websites.
Flooding is an annual problem during the rainy season for Bangkok's riverside residents, many of whom live in traditional wooden-stilt homes. The rainy season runs through October.
The helicopter, chartered by the state-run National Broadcasting Services of Thailand to cover flooding, was hovering near a riverside Buddhist temple on Ko Kret, an island north of the capital, when its tail got tangled in the wires.
The pilot brought the helicopter down on a nearby pier, allowing all four people on board - the pilot, co-pilot, a cameraman and a female reporter - to escape before the pier collapsed from the chopper's weight and sank into the river, according to the Matichon and Thai Rath newspapers' websites.
Flooding is an annual problem during the rainy season for Bangkok's riverside residents, many of whom live in traditional wooden-stilt homes. The rainy season runs through October.
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