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Mi-17 helicopter of Sudan People's Liberation Army crashes, five dead

El Fasher, Sudan - It's the second accident occurred in Sudan in less than one week

Yesterday a Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, SPLA, crashed in a western area of Sudan causing the death of all the five occupants. The aircraft would have been flying in the Darfur Region, in phase of approach to El Fasher's airport, when -according to reports from the Army's spokesman, Colonel Sawarmi Khaled Saad- a technical failure occurred that would have caused the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1128449
Rome, Italy, 04/19/2011 11:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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