SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES PROFOUND SADNESS OVER DEATHS IN TRAGIC CRASH OF HELICOPTER FLYING FOR UNITED NATIONS IN HAITI

16 March 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6925

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES PROFOUND SADNESS OVER DEATHS IN TRAGIC CRASH OF HELICOPTER FLYING FOR UNITED NATIONS IN HAITI

19990316 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

It is with profound sadness that the Secretary-General has learned of the deaths, on Sunday, 14 March, of six members of the Argentinean National Gendarmerie serving with the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) and seven members of the International Charter Incorporated Helicopter Company, in the tragic crash of a helicopter flying for the United Nations in Haiti. The aircraft was on its way to Labadie, on the north coast of Haiti, to assist a seriously injured person. The Secretary-General extends his condolences to the families of the victims during this time of sorrow.

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