Dramatic video showed the moment an Italian military helicopter crashed during a training exercise, killing four people and injuring 11.
Footage of the deadly crash Thursday showed the aircraft struggling to maintain propulsion at a low altitude before it crashed in a field near Gorice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Italian CH-47 Chinook, part of a European Union peacekeeping force, was carrying fifteen people when it crashed in the nation’s Brcko District.
Italian Red Cross Military Corps sergeant Laura Procacci and Army sergeant Simone Ruggia.
Army sergeants and flight technicians Simone Ruggia and Claudio Marchesi were killed along with Italian Red Cross Military Corps lieutenant Franco Adriano Zecchillo, an emergency response technician, and sergeant Laura Procacci — the first woman to reach that rank in the corps, according to La Repubblica.
“There are no words capable of filling such a great loss,” Italian Minister Guido Crosetto reportedly said.
The injured passengers were in stable condition and “there were no injuries to civilians,” according to European Union Force Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was conducting a “thorough and complete” investigation.
EUFOR is a 1,200-soldier mission that operates under a UN Security Council mandate to oversee the security and military provisions of a peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War in 1995.
With Post wires
