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Added on the 09/12/2020 11:02:59 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A helicopter takes off from the Tournon base in Savoie, a day after a tragic incident on Tuesday evening. For reasons still unknown, a mountain rescue helicopter crashed in the Alps, leaving five dead with only the pilot surviving but badly wounded. IMAGES
French police arrives at the scene of a helicopter crash in which the passenger French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed near Touques, near the upmarket coastal resort of Deauville in northern France. Olivier Dassault, a politician and scion of the Dassault aircraft-making family, was 69 years old. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives in Albertville following the rescue helicopter crash that killed five people on Tuesday. He visits the Alps' section of the CRS (Republican Security Company), which lost two rescuers in the crash. IMAGES
Soldiers at the Pau-Uzein Air Force Base paid a final tribute to their seven brothers-in-arms from the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (RHC)killed last week. The soldiers died when two helicopters collided last Monday while pursuing jihadists in northern Mali where militant violence has soared in recent months. IMAGES
Brazilian rescue teams lift the wreckage of a military police helicopter out of the water after it crashed in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara bay after it crashed, killing one and injuring three. IMAGES