Plane carrying servicemen wounded in Sibiu helicopter crash lands in Bucharest

The two servicemen wounded in the helicopter crash in Sibiu County, Captain-commodore Corneliu-Gabriel Titian - aged 47, and Chief Master Sergeant Valentin Bora - aged 41, were brought Friday evening to Bucharest aboard a military plane.

Eight servicemen were killed and another two were wounded after a military IAR-330 PUMA helicopter crashed on Friday around 10:40 hrs within the boundaries of Malancrav, Sibiu County.

''The eight troops killed in the helicopter crash this Friday are: Air Commodore Artur-Grigore Palfi, aged 46, married, father of one; medical service Captain, doctor Rares-Cosmin Moldovan, aged 34, married, father of one; Captain Razvan Aurel Moldovan, aged 29, married; Sub-lieutenant Andrei-Catalin Apostol, aged 25, unmarried; Chief Master Sergeant Paul Badescu, aged 41, unmarried; Senior Master Sergeant Dorin Fodor, aged 43, married, father of two; Master Sergeant Vasile-Marian Gadalean, aged 33 unmarried, father of one; and Master Sergeant Constantin-Dorin Filip, aged 30, unmarried," the Ministry of National Defence said in a Friday statement to AGERPRES.

The helicopter was underway from the Campia Turzii 71st Air Base for a military drill at the Cincu shooting grounds (Brasov County). AGERPRES