Two helicopters collide mid-air before devastating crash in Finland

Two helicopters have slammed into each other mid-air in, plummeting to the ground in Finland.

Witnesses watched in horror as the aircraft crashed into each other above the western province of Eura.

This is the area where British helicopter squadrons were deployed as part of the Finnish Army’s spring exercises at the end of April.

But a spokesperson for the Finnish General Staff said no Finnish Air Force or international military helicopter was involved in the incident.

A statement from Finnish police said: ‘Police received a call at 12.35 pm today that two helicopters had collided. The first authorities are on their way to the scene.’

The wreckages of both aircraft have since been found near Eura Airport, but not in its area.

‘Two helicopters that fell to the ground have been located,’ the search and rescue service said.

Antti Marjanen, who lives in nearby Kauttua, Eura, told Finnish news outlet Iltalehti that he saw the two helicopters flying from the direction of Säkylä.

He said: ‘I looked at them with admiration, as you rarely see such aircraft.’

It was just moments later that he witnessed one of them make an ‘evasive’ maneuver before hitting the second helicopter.

‘One came down like a stone, the other a little bit like that, little by little. I did not hear any sound,’ Marjanen said,

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