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Anthony Harvey/PA
Argentina

Two dead after MTV helicopter crash in Argentinian reservoir

Rescuers trying to reach the downed helicopter said it had plunged some 60 metres underwater.

AT LEST TWO people were killed when a helicopter being used by film crew with the US television channel MTV crashed into a reservoir in western Argentina, officials said today.

The security minister for Mendoza province, Gianni Venier, said the helicopter crashed about 30 kilometres from the city of Mendoza, the provincial capital — some 620 kilometres west of Buenos Aires.

Wreckage from the aircraft has been found, and a pilot and a technician aboard the helicopter were reported killed when the craft plunged into the reservoir at Potrerillos de Mendoza dam.

The helicopter was being used for a reality show for the channel. MTV issued a statement saying the helicopter was working on “The Challenge,” a co-production of MTV and Bunim-Murray Productions, and was flying to a shooting location when it went down. MTV said only two people were on the helicopter and neither was a cast or show crew member.

Rescuers trying to reach the downed helicopter said it had plunged some 60 metres underwater.

The crash is the second this year involving a helicopter taking part in filming in Argentina.

In March, 10 people, eight French nationals and two Argentines, were killed during the filming of a show for reality TV in France.

The dead included three well-known French athletes — pioneering sailor Florence Arthaud and Olympian swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine.

- © AFP 2015 with reporting from Associated Press.

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