A group of French sports stars participating in a reality TV show were among 10 people killed when their helicopters collided mid-air while filming in Argentina.
Champion sailor Florence Arthaud, 57, Olympic gold-medal swimmer Camille Muffat, 25, and Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine, 28, were among those killed.
The two helicopters were filming the survival series Dropped when they crashed into each other in the rugged mountains of La Rioja province, a scenic area popular with tourists, around 1,100 kilometres north of the capital Buenos Aires, local officials said.
Police said the victims were eight French nationals and two Argentine pilots.
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Dropped, which was to air on French television channel TF1, involved eight sports stars being dropped into inhospitable environments for an adventure- and survival-themed reality show.
