A MILITARY helicopter crashed in Azerbaijan during a training flight Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding two more, Azerbaijani authorities said. The helicopter of Azerbaijan’s State Border Guard service crashed Tuesday morning during a flight over the Garaeybat training ground in the east of Azerbaijan, according to a joint statement of the border guard service and Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s office. The helicopter went down around 10.40 a.m. local time in the Khizi area of northeastern Azerbaijan. “Fourteen people died and two more were wounded as a result of a state border service helicopter crash,” TRT World reported, citing the statement from the country’s frontier guard. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, which the two state agencies are investigating.(SD-Agencies) |