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American Astronaut Gene Cernan Escapes Helicopter Crash Without Injuries
By the Associated Press
posted: 12:39 pm ET
28 October 2001
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cernan_helicopter_011028 PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) _ American astronaut Eugene Cernan escaped a helicopter crash in the southern parts of the Czech Republic without injuries, an official said Sunday. Cernan was traveling in a military helicopter that crashed Sunday afternoon during an emergency landing near Milevsko, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Prague, said Milan Repka, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry. No one was killed in the accident, Repka said, Cernan was traveling aboard the helicopter with Vladimir Remek, the eastern European country's only cosmonaut. The helicopter had been traveling to Bernatice, 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Prague, the hometown of Cernan's grandfather. ``There were some injuries among the crew, but it is my understanding that Mr. Cernan and Mr. Remek escaped uninjured,'' Repka said. Czech state radio reported two crew members were hospitalized with serious injuries. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, Repka said. Cernan, born in Broadview, Illinois, was a Navy attack pilot who became an astronaut in 1963. He flew on the Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions. He was the second American to walk in space and the last to walk on the moon
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