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Helicopter Crash at Prehistoric Site Co. Meath

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 05 April 2004  Page Views: 1462

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Two people were injured when a helicopter crash-landed today near a prehistoric burial site in the Irish Republic. Four people were in the machine when it got into difficulties and came down in a field behind the 260ft-wide national monument at Newgrange in Co Meath.

Police said two of those on board had escaped unhurt.

The injured were taken to hospital in nearby Drogheda, Co Louth.

The burial mound, 30 miles north of Dublin, which dates back to 3200BC and pre-dates Egypt’s pyramids by six centuries, was not damaged in the incident.

Source: The Scotsman 05/04/2004

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