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vbadmin
08-04-2006, 07:10 PM
A Dominican Air Force helicopter crashed into a house in El Cangrejo de Monte Llano, Puerto Plata yesterday, after taking off from the Puerto Plata Air Force Base. The two officers on board were wounded and immediately taken to the Ramon de Lara Hospital in San Isidro, according to Diario Libre sources. The helicopter had taken off at 10:58am bound for Dajabon on the border with Haiti and fell three miles southeast of the military base in Puerto Plata. The wounded officers were Captain Roa Ochoa and Lieutenant Coroner Valenzuela Taveras. The inhabitants of the house that was hit by the helicopter were unharmed. The accident is being investigated.

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