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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 09:40
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One body found at Blackhawk crash site
PETCHABURI, July 22 (TNA) - Thai army rescue officers, in cooperation with their Myanmar counterparts, have successfully reached a site in Myanmar where a Blackhawk helicopter crashed earlier this week and initially found a body.
Authorities at a special Thai military camp in the Kaeng Krajan National Park of Thailand's upper southern Petchaburi Province confirmed Friday morning they had been reported by the on-foot army rescue officers that they had detected the dead victim of the ill-fated Blackhawk at the crash site, located some 300 metres from the Thai-Myanmar border and some 200 metres from the site where the other Thai army helicopter crashed in a Kaeng Krajan deep forest last Saturday, killing all five officers on board--whose bodies were retrieved on Thursday.
The Thai army authorities said, however, that the first body found at the Blackhawk crash could not yet be identified.
There were nine people on board the Blackhawk, which crashed on a mountain in Myanmar during an attempt on Tuesday morning to retrieve the five bodies from last Saturday's crash site in the Kaeng Krajan National Park.
Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, two pilots, six other army officers and a cameraman of the military-supervised TV Channel 5 in Bangkok were on board the ill-fated Blackhawk helicopter. (TNA)
Authorities at a special Thai military camp in the Kaeng Krajan National Park of Thailand's upper southern Petchaburi Province confirmed Friday morning they had been reported by the on-foot army rescue officers that they had detected the dead victim of the ill-fated Blackhawk at the crash site, located some 300 metres from the Thai-Myanmar border and some 200 metres from the site where the other Thai army helicopter crashed in a Kaeng Krajan deep forest last Saturday, killing all five officers on board--whose bodies were retrieved on Thursday.
The Thai army authorities said, however, that the first body found at the Blackhawk crash could not yet be identified.
There were nine people on board the Blackhawk, which crashed on a mountain in Myanmar during an attempt on Tuesday morning to retrieve the five bodies from last Saturday's crash site in the Kaeng Krajan National Park.
Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, two pilots, six other army officers and a cameraman of the military-supervised TV Channel 5 in Bangkok were on board the ill-fated Blackhawk helicopter. (TNA)
