Helicopters Collide At Berlin Stadium

One person died when two helicopters collided over Berlin’s Olympic Stadium March 21, during a police security exercise for operations against football hooligans.

The Berlin fire brigade said in a statement that at least one person was killed and “several injured” when the two choppers collided at low altitude during a spring snowstorm.

The stadium was the venue for the 1936 Games where four gold medals for African-American athlete Jesse Owens ruined Adolf Hitler’s dreams of Aryan glory for the hosts on the eve of World War II.

German media said hundreds of federal police were conducting an exercise to prepare for operations against violent football fans at the stadium.

Fire service spokesman Stephan Fleischer said one of the pilots died at the scene, but an investigation is yet to discover if five seriously injured people were helicopter passengers or on the ground.