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DATE: MONDAY, April 18, 1994                   TAG: 9404180067
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ADANA, TURKEY                                LENGTH: Short

MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR COPTER VICTIMS

The home air base for U.S. planes flying over northern Iraq held a memorial service Sunday for the 26 people killed Thursday when U.S. jets accidentally destroyed two U.S. helicopters over Iraq.

Turks at the base expressed anger and sorrow over the incident, in which three Turkish officers died along with American, British, French and Iraqi Kurdish passengers.

The service at Incirlik Air Base was closed to journalists, but civilians there said the accident had cast a pall of disbelief over the community of 5,000 Americans.

"There's a great deal of sadness," said Don Torrey, principal of the base's high school.

- The Washington Post 


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