FILE - The lights of an ambulance. (Photo by Matt Jonas/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) JERUSALEM (AP) - A helicopter belonging to an international peacekeeping force crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least seven people including several Americans, an Israeli and an Egyptian official said.The Israeli official said that five Americans were among the dead in the crash in Sinai.
The other victims were French and Czech. The official said Israel initially dispatched a helicopter to rescue the wounded, but called off the mission after the deaths were confirmed.The Egyptian official said the UH-60 Black Hawk was on a reconnaissance mission and crashed near the island of Tiran, apparently because.