Phra Vihaan Khmer-temple, wreck of a RCAF helicopter
Scanned slide, image taken in December 2000.
The heli wreck was located near the border between Thailand and Cambodia and had crashed on 1st April 1998 with approx. 30 people, including ten foreign journalists and a British diplomat. The dangerously overloaded helicopter foundered on its approach to the temple, bumped the ground twice before turning on its side, breaking up and detonating at least one landmine in the border-area (you can still see barbed-wire next to it). The passengers suffered only minor injuries.
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Also written as Preah Vihear Temple is an ancient Hindu temple built by the Khmer Empire, located on top of a 525-metre (1,722 ft) cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia. Construction of the first temple on the site began in the early 9th century and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Phra Vihaan Khmer-temple, wreck of a RCAF helicopter
Scanned slide, image taken in December 2000.
The heli wreck was located near the border between Thailand and Cambodia and had crashed on 1st April 1998 with approx. 30 people, including ten foreign journalists and a British diplomat. The dangerously overloaded helicopter foundered on its approach to the temple, bumped the ground twice before turning on its side, breaking up and detonating at least one landmine in the border-area (you can still see barbed-wire next to it). The passengers suffered only minor injuries.
english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ill-fated-rcaf-chopper-dan...
Also written as Preah Vihear Temple is an ancient Hindu temple built by the Khmer Empire, located on top of a 525-metre (1,722 ft) cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia. Construction of the first temple on the site began in the early 9th century and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.