All ten people on board were killed when two helicopters collided while filming a reality show in Argentina’s Andes Mountains on Monday evening. The French program, called “Dropped,” takes sports stars into the wilderness and follows their efforts to find their way back to civilization. The two pilots were Argentinian, but the rest of those who died were French. They included an Olympic swimmer, a sailor and a boxer, all of whom were well-known in France, and five staffers for the show. Francois Hollande, president of France, said the crash was an “immense sadness” for his country.
Video posted online shows one of the helicopters climbing up beneath the other one, as both are circling at a low altitude, reportedly less than 300 feet above the ground. Both aircraft were reportedly Eurocopter models and had taken off just a few minutes before.
