Posted on 11/08/2007 5:14:12 AM PST by RDTF
ROME (Reuters) - A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter crashed on Thursday in northern Italy with 10 people on board, killing at least two of them, police said.
The crash took place in a rural area outside the northern Italian city of Treviso, along the bank of the Piave river, a fire brigade official told Reuters.
"It appears the helicopter was a single-rotor Blackhawk with four blades," said a fire brigade official. "It looks like it went down between the bridge on state (highway) 13 and the bridge on highway A27."
It was not immediately clear whether the helicopter took off from the nearby U.S. military base in Aviano. -snip-
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