Four of five occupants killed when helicopter crashed into Istanbul Strait. Pilot, and commander of the Police Aviation Unit, Kemal Ozdemir survived the accident by swimming to safety. Other passengers were Branch Director of Information Technology Ragip Ali Bilgen and his son, Marine, with a strong second pilot Murat Güçlü and Oray Sarıçay’ın who worked for the national airline THY.
- Date
- May 20, 2011
- Make
- Eurocopter
- Model
- SE313
- Location
- Istanbul Strait
- Country
- Turkey
- CivilMilitary
- Military
- Fatal
- 4
- Operator
- Turkish-Police
- Link 1
- http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180931.html
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- Link 3
- http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=tr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dha.com.tr%2Fanadolu-kavaginda-dusen-polis-helikopterinde-kemal-ozdemir-ragip-ali-bilgen-deniz-bilgen-murat-guclu-yaralandi_163204.html
