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 MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine air force grounded its Vietnam War-era Huey helicopters Sunday after one crashed on a busy street while landing in a central city after combat training, killing nine people, officials said.
The UH-1H plummeted out of control while landing and crashed on a street outside an air base in Lapu-Lapu city on the central island of Mactan Saturday afternoon, pinning a motorcycle taxi and hitting another near a public market, air force officials said.
All seven people riding the motorcycle taxi were killed while a driver and a commuter were wounded in the other. The crash also killed one of two veteran pilots and one of two crewmen of the helicopter, the officials said.
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