Helikopter AS Jatuh di Inggris Tewaskan Empat Awaknya
U.S. Military Helicopter Crashed in England Killing All Four Crew
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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London (B2B) - Empat orang diduga telah tewas dalam kecelakaan helikopter di Inggris Timur pada Selasa (7/1), kata beberapa laporan yang mengutip beberapa sumber polisi.
Helikopter tersebut kecelakaan di Cley, Norfolk Utara, kata polisi.
Helikopter itu diduga adalah helikopter militer HH-60 Pave Hawk. Angkatan Udara AS memiliki pangkalan di RAF Lakenheath, yang berdekatan dengan Suffolk.
Polisi Norfolk sebagaimana dikutip oleh media lokal mengatakan mereka menangani kecelakaan helikopter tunggal di Cley, di pantai North Norfolk, seperti dilansir Xinhua.
"Diduga ada empat orang tewas," kata polisi di dalam satu pernyataan, sebagaimana dikutip Xinhua.
Para pejabat telah menutup daerah 400 meter di sekitar lokasi.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution sebelumnya mengungkapkan lembaga itu telah diberi tugas untuk menggunakan tiga perahu penyelamat guna menanggapi laporan bahwa satu pesawat mungkin telah jatuh ke laut.
"Perahu Penyelamat Wells, Shringham dan Cromer diluncurkan atas permintaan penjaga pantai tapi ketiganya tidak berangkat ketika dikonfirmasi bahwa pesawat tersebut telah jatuh di daratan," kata seorang juru bicara.
Menurut laporan media, Angkatan Udara AS telah mengkonfirmasi satu helikopter Pave Hawknya telah jatuh di Inggris.
London - Four people are believed to have died in a helicopter crash in eastern England on Tuesday, according to reports citing police sources.
The helicopter crash in Cley, north Norfolk, police said.
It is believed the helicopter is a HH-60 Pave Hawk military helicopter. The U.S. Air Force has a base in nearby RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Norfolk police are quoted by local media as saying that they were dealing with a single helicopter crash in the Cley area, on the North Norfolk coast.
"There are believed to be four fatalities," the police said in a statement.
Officers have cordoned off a 400-meter area around the site.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution earlier revealed that it had been asked for three lifeboats to respond to reports that an aircraft may have ditched in the sea.
"Lifeboats Wells, Sheringham and Cromer were launched at the request of the coastguard but were stood down when it was confirmed that the aircraft had come down over land," said a spokesman.
According to media reports, the U.S. Air Force had confirmed that one of its Pave-Hawk helicopters has crashed in England.
