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Istanbul helicopter crash: At least Five Dead
World | March 10, 2017, Friday // 12:21
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A helicopter carrying top business execs has crashed onto a motorway after smashing into an atrial tower.
Five people were killed after the chopper came down in the mainly residential Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul, Turkey.
The Sikorsky S-76 helicopter had taken off from Istanbul's main Ataturk airport with seven people on board minutes before the accident.
Belonging to the Eczacıbaşı group of companies, it had been carrying a Turkish official, four Russian citizens and two Turkish pilots.
Witnesses said the aircraft hit a television tower in dense fog before crashing on to a nearby motorway.
Vasip Sahin, the governor of Istanbul, said the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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