Firefighters work on the site shortly after a helicopter with seven people inside was crashed in Istanbul's Buyukcekmece district on Friday. (Cem Bakırcı/Depo Photos via AP)ISTANBUL - A helicopter crashed on a highway in the outskirts of Istanbul on Friday, after apparently hitting a television tower in dense fog, reports said. Gov Vasip Sahin said the helicopter crashed in Istanbul's Buyukcekmece district after taking off from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, adding that the cause of the crash is under investigation. Eyewitness Fikret Karatekin, a taxi driver, told CNN-Turk television by telephone that the helicopter slammed into the tower before crashing on the highway. ''It hit the tower and crashed by spinning,'' he said, adding that the highway had been closed down.

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