A tourist helicopter has crashed in the Swiss Alps today, killing three people and injuring another three. The B3-type helicopter from Air Glaciers, which had four tourists, a mountain guide and the pilot on board, crashed at a landing site on the Petit Combin mountain airfield, in the Swiss canton of Valais, around 9.25am local time.
A tourist helicopter has crashed in the Swiss Alps today, killing three people and injuring another three. The B3-type helicopter from Air Glaciers, which had four tourists, a mountain guide and the pilot on board, crashed at a landing site on the Petit Combin mountain airfield, in the Swiss canton of Valais, around 9.25am local time.
The tourists and their guide had planned to go heli-skiing, which is off-trail, downhill skiing where the skiers get to the top of the mountain by helicopter, instead of via a ski lift. Police say the helicopter slipped off the summit of the 3,668-metre mountain onto the north slope for reasons currently unknown. The aircraft rolled down the steep slope, causing a snow slide that buried it underneath, according to local medi
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