Border police probe ’copter incident
NZPA-Reuter Munich The West German police were investigating assertions that a United States Army helicopter had violated Czechoslovak airspace shortly before it was attacked by MiG fighter planes on Saturday, a border police spokesman said.
The Cobra helicopter was attacked with guns and rockets by the Soviet-built aircraft while on a routine daily patrol along the West German - Czechoslovak border, but escaped unscathed.
The West German spokes-
man said that witnesses had reported that the two-man helicopter was definitely over Czechoslovak territory when the attack occurred. But he said that such reports were treated with caution pending exhaustive on-the-spot questioning, and that it could take several days for the border police to
check the evidence. An American military spokesman in Stuttgart said that a board of officers had convened to investigate the incident, which concerned a helicopter of the Nurem-berg-based 2nd Armoured
Cavalry Regiment.
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