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'An act of stupidity:' Mexicans furious after government helicopter kills 13 quake victimsby Avi SelkA government helicopter, surveying damage from an earthquake that killed no one, crashed in southern Mexico on Friday evening and killed at least 13 men, women and children, and injured more than a dozen.The accident horrified and angered people in Mexico, which had seemed to escape the worst after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the state of Oaxaca earlier in the day. Unlike last year's deadly quake near Mexico City, this temblor caused little more than power outages and structural damage in the town of Santiago Jamiltepec, near the southern coast.Read more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/17/mexicans-survived-an-earthquake-then-a-government-helicopter-killed-13-on-the-ground/?utm_term=.adb4944e6889
Sh__hole country.
The governor of Oaxaca and Mexico's new interior secretary had been assessing the damage from the air.
The pilot then lost control.“It slid, like it skidded, and it hit some vehicles that were parked alongside the area,†said Jorge Morales, who was inside the helicopter, according to the AP.The Blackhawk ended up on its side, plastic chairs strewn around the field and two vans crushed beneath thousands of pounds of machinery.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/17/mexicans-survived-an-earthquake-then-a-government-helicopter-killed-13-on-the-ground/?utm_term=.755eed612c3a
