The toll of the accident in the Swiss Alps which occurred this morning to a helicopter used for heli-skiing service, the practice of off-piste skiing using an aircraft as a means of ascent, is three dead and three injured. On board were the pilot, a mountain guide and four customers. The police of the Canton of Valais communicated this. The helicopter crashed this morning around 9.25am on Petit Combin, where it should have landed to let the guide and customers off. Arriving at the top of the mountain which culminates at 3,668 meters above sea level, the aircraft "slipped along the north face" for "a reason that the investigation will have to determine".
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