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Source: Berlin - horror crash at Berlin's Olympic Stadium! In a police-training are on Thursday morning around 10:30 clock two helicopters (type Puma) crashed in a snowstorm. They crashed on the Maifeld! A pilot is dead after BILD.de information, two people were
March 21, 2013
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Berlin - horror crash at Berlin's Olympic Stadium! In a police-training are on Thursday morning around 10:30 clock two helicopters (type Puma) crashed in a snowstorm. They crashed on the Maifeld! A pilot is dead after BILD.de information, two people were seriously injured, two more easier.
At the time of the accident were rehearsed and the Federal Police used against violent hooligans at a football game.
Enlarge The policemen help the injured. The pilot of the helicopter is dead, the police help the injured. The pilot of the helicopter is dead
In the large-scale exercise were about 400 police on the ground. Half of them should mimic rampaging hooligans. Pyrotechnics should also be used. To support strips and federal police from Blumberg in Berlin were used by vehicles and helicopters.
BILD.de reporter Axel Lier, who wanted to report on the exercise, witnessed the horrific tragedy, "Here are all completely shocked."
The dead are the pilot of one of the helicopters. A man and a woman are seriously injured two other people be hurt easily. In addition, at least three people suffered from shock.
What led to the horrific crash?
Apparently, one of the pilots had lost in the dense snowfall orientation and crashed while landing on another helicopter with him. Both helicopters crashed at low altitude on the Maifeld.
Eyewitness John M. reported on NTV: "It was a real snowstorm, suddenly we heard a bang and someone shouted 'Everybody down'. Then there was blood everywhere. Next to me was a huge puddle of blood. "
A cameraman filmed the German Press Agency about 50 meters from the accident site, it has "almost caught himself," he said.
Panic broke out at the scene, people were running through each other, provided the injured policemen in addition to the helicopter wreckage.
The aim of the exercise was, according to the Federal Police, consistently tackle football hooligans and ensure the prosecution.
Enlarge Here are the two helicopters on the Berlin Maifeld lie here, the two helicopters on the Berlin Maifeld
Photo: AP