Two Americans were killed when their helicopter, which was participating in aid and recovery operations in earthquake-hit Haiti, crashed in the Dominican Republic, aviation authorities and a local television network said on Friday.
The U.S.-registered helicopter hit a mountain and burst into flames on Thursday evening at Restauracion, close to the Haitian border, some 175 miles northeast of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic's National Institute of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
The aviation institute identified the dead Americans as James Jaloe and John Ward, but it gave no more details of their mission or cargo, Reuters reported.
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