Three Colombian vacationers from identical household are among the many victims of Saturday’s crash on mountainside forest of Tijuca Nationwide Park.
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At the least 4 folks have been killed in a helicopter crash within the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, in keeping with a press release from the Colombian consul within the nation.
Saturday’s crash concerned a pilot and three Colombian girls who have been members of the identical household.
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They have been reportedly on a sightseeing flight over Tijuca Nationwide Park, a densely forested, mountainous space on the sting of the town.
Within the aftermath of the crash, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere known as for extra oversight of helicopter flights, a preferred vacationer exercise. He even steered such flights may very well be suspended “for every week or two”, as new security measures are applied.
“My solidarity to the households of the victims of the helicopter accident that occurred at this time close to Vista Chinesa throughout the Tijuca Nationwide Park,” Cavaliere mentioned in a social media publish.
He added that he had been in touch with Brazil’s Nationwide Civil Aviation Company, ANAC.
“Metropolis Corridor has requested that ANAC take fast motion to accentuate oversight and guarantee security in helicopter flights which are circulating with growing frequency in our metropolis,” Cavaliere defined.
“We place the complete equipment of Metropolis Corridor on the disposal of ANAC to help the measures and actions that could be needed.”
The crash befell close to Vista Chinesa, a lookout level topped by a small bamboo pagoda. Tijuca Nationwide Park is a high vacation spot in Rio de Janeiro, well-known for its Christ the Redeemer statue and sweeping vistas of the coastal metropolis.
Diana Paez, the Colombian consul common in Rio de Janeiro, informed the information company AFP that the three girls on Saturday’s flight have been a part of a household that had travelled to the town to rejoice a woman’s fifteenth birthday.
The group of six had cut up up because the helicopter might solely match three folks. The woman’s grandmother, aunt and cousin died within the crash.
Helicopter rides have turn out to be a preferred manner for vacationers to see the town and its numerous monuments from above, a apply that has attracted rising concern over security.
Six folks have been just lately killed when two helicopters collided in midair over the town. That incident befell over the western suburb of Recreio dos Bandeirantes on June 14.
