Father and son killed in copter crash.A FATHER and son were among four people killed when a helicopter crashed into hills in bad weather. The privately-owned Jet Ranger Ranger Any of a series of unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by NASA. The project was NASA's earliest attempt to explore the Moon's surface. Ranger 4 (1962) became the first U.S. spacecraft to hit the Moon, crash-landing on its surface as planned. 206B was reported missing on Saturday afternoon after setting off from Gloucestershire airport Gloucestershire Airport (IATA: GLO, ICAO: EGBJ), formerly Staverton Airport, is located in Staverton, Gloucestershire, England, between the city of Gloucester and the town of Cheltenham, and close to the M5 motorway. in Staverton, Cheltenham, at 7am. Wreckage was found in the Blackdown hills For other places with the same name, see Blackdown, Sussex or Blackdown, Warwickshire (disambiguation) The Blackdown Hills are a range of hills along the Somerset-Devon border in south-western England. They were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1991. near Corfe, Somerset. The bodies of the male pilot and three crew - two men and a 15-year-old boy - have been recovered. The victims are from the Gloucestershire area and a police spokeswoman said the boy's father was one of the victims, but the other two men were not thought to be related. It is believed the helicopter stopped somewhere in Devon before heading back to Gloucestershire and crashing in Somerset. |
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