Pilots ok following chopper crash

Reports reaching News Five indicate that the two pilots of a British Army helicopter that crashed yesterday are uninjured but will undergo routine tests just to make sure. The Bell 212 went down on a training mission around noon on Wednesday at the Nova Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. It was totally destroyed by fire after the pilots escaped.

In a historical update a website viewer has corrected our assertion that yesterday’s crash was BATSUB’s first. In 1998 a BATSUB Gazelle went down in the Belizean jungle. Passengers and crew were unscathed but the aircraft was a write-off. Prior to the existence of BATSUB, in 1976, a British Forces helicopter crashed in Belize, killing two men: Lieutenant A.W. McKillip and Corporal M.P. Glasgow.