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Cambodian helicopter spotted crashed on a mountain 17 days after being lost. Bodies of pilots found

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Defense Ministry and state media reports say that the wreckage of a Cambodian military helicopter that went missing more than two weeks ago with two pilots aboard has been spotted on a mountaintop. A statement on the Defense Ministry’s Facebook page says the wreckage of the Chinese-made Z-9 helicopter was spotted on a mountaintop in the heavily forested Cardamom Mountains in Pursat province. State news agency AKP says military recovery personnel sent to the crash site found the bodies of both pilots.

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