NAY PYI TAW – A military helicopter crashed during a training flight between Meikhtila of Mandalay Division and Nay Pyi Taw last Thursday morning (June 15), and it is reported that both the helicopter trainer and the trainee of the junta group were killed on the spot.
The junta regime confirmed that a helicopter of its air force on a training flight from Nay Pyi Taw to Meikhtila, with a helicopter pilot and a trainee on board, suddenly malfunctioned and crushed to the ground about five miles southwest of Ledawgyi Village, and that the helicopter was damaged and the pilot and trainee died on the spot.
Names and positions of the dead junta troops have not yet disclosed and the type of the helicopter that crashed was also not announced.
A person related to the revolution concluded that the helicopter trainee could have been be at least a captain and that the crashed helicopter could be one of the old helicopters produced in Russia.