The ministry identified the dead as Captain (Pilot) Mubarak Salem Daway al-Marri, Captain (Pilot) Saeed Nasser Sameh, Sergeant Fahad Hadi Ghanem al-khayarin and Corporal Mohammed Maher Mohammed of the Qatar Armed Forces, Major Sinan Taştekin of the Qatar-Turkey Joint Forces and Turkish civilian associates Suleiman Cemra Kahraman and Ismail Anas Can.
The bodies of three Turkish military servicemen and technicians killed in a helicopter crash in the Persian Gulf were flown to Murted Air Base in Ankara aboard a Qatar Air Force C-17A heavy transport plane with tail number A7-MAM. https://t.co/hLasfGbBrl pic.twitter.com/e6P9CzAyeD
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– The helicopter of the Qatari armed forces, which was conducting an exercise as part of the command of the joint forces of Qatar and Turkey, crashed into the sea – the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced.
– A member of the Turkish armed forces and two technicians of Aselsan died in the fall, the ministry announced, referring to the Turkish giant of the dedicated industry.
The announcement came after Qatar’s Ministry of Defense earlier announced that the helicopter had crashed following a “technical fault”.
– The Qatari helicopter had a technical failure during a routine task, which led to a fall in the regional waters of that country – the Ministry of Defense announced on platform X, TV network al-Arabiya reports.
(Vijesti.ba / FENA)
