Video captured the moment two helicopters crashed into each other mid-air while fighting wildfires in Greece.
Emergency services were called after the aircraft collided in the Psatha region of Attica, 42 miles west of Athens.
The Bell-manufactured helicopters were each carrying two passengers and had taken off from the Elefsina military airport.
Striking footage shows one of the aircraft slowly approaching the other – before their rotors clash and the helicopter erupts into a fireball and plummets into a ravine.
The crew members – two Greek and two Romanian – have been taken to the 251st Air Force General Hospital, local media reports.
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