Three Royal Navy aviators were killed in a helicopter crash in rural Devon on Wednesday morning, the latest fatal accident for the British Armed Forces in recent weeks.

A Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Merlin Mk-IV helicopter crashed in a field on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, early on Wednesday morning. Images from the scene on Sourton Down near Ocehampton show the remains of the airframe spread over a small area but that much appeared to have been destroyed by fire.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Defence confirmed that three people had been killed in the crash, which took place during a helicopter training exercise. The families of the…

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