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Editor: James T. Crouse
Profession: Aviation Accident Attorney

Category: Helicopter Crashes

China continues to struggle with challenges as it seeks to respond to the devastation from an earthquake on May 12 which left 15 million people homeless and heightened fears of epidemic outbreaks in the affected areas. An example of the lingering risks associated with this disaster, a military helicopter crashed while evacuating 10 injured residents from the earthquake region of Sichuan. The Russian-built helicopter had brought a team of military experts on disease outbreaks to the area and crashed after air-lifting the patients from the area, which is still suffering from aftershocks. The weather at the time has been reported as foggy with a lot of turbulence.

At this time there is no information on survivors or the cause of the crash.