{"id":3196848,"date":"2025-05-17T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=3196848"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:27:35","slug":"five-killed-when-two-helicopters-collide-in-finland-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2025\/05\/five-killed-when-two-helicopters-collide-in-finland-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Five killed when two helicopters collide in Finland \u2013 police"},"content":{"rendered":"

HELSINKI — All five people on board two helicopters were killed Saturday when the aircraft collided mid-air in Finland and crashed to the ground, police said.<\/p>\n

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\nAll five people on board two helicopters were killed Saturday when the aircraft collided mid-air in Finland and crashed to the ground, police said.
\u201cFive people died in a helicopter accident near Eura Airport on Saturday,\u201d Detective Chief Inspector Johannes Siirila said in a statement.
According to their flight plans, one was carrying two people and the other three. They had taken off from the Estonian capital Tallinn and were bound for Piikajarvi, a few kilometers from where they came down.
Media reports said those on board were businessmen.
Finnish newspaper Iltalehti quoted one witness, Antti Marjanen, who reported seeing one of the helicopters hit the other during a maneuver.
\u201cOne of them dropped like a stone and the other one more slowly. I didn\u2019t hear any sound,\u201d Marjanen was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n