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Helicopter Crashes on Tennis Courts in Buenos Aires

A helicopter crashed onto tennis courts in a Buenos Aires park, injuring three people on board. The passengers were able to exit the aircraft on their own and were hospitalized.


Helicopter Crashes on Tennis Courts in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, December 4 (NA) -- A helicopter crashed this Thursday onto the tennis courts of Manuel Belgrano Park (former KDT), injuring the three people on board. Police sources told the Argentine News Agency (NA) that it is two men and one woman who are “out of the aircraft, conscious and alive,” while “they are being assisted by Fire Department and SAME personnel”. According to information from police spokespeople at the scene, the helicopter crashed “due to a technical malfunction” onto the tennis courts of the former KDT circuit, located at Av. Salguero 3700. The aircraft's occupants, two men and one woman, were assisted and transported by the City Fire Department and SAME personnel, and then transferred to the Fernández Hospital. “The occupants left the aircraft on their own and the situation was under control,” the sources consulted by NA specified. The aircraft, which had to make an emergency landing due to the malfunction, was lying sideways on one of the courts. #AgenciaNA