An Israeli military helicopter crashed in mountainous central Romania on Monday during an exercise with the Romanian air force. Seven people, six Israelis and a Romanian observer, were on board. Romanian authorities said the bodies had been recovered; the army informed the families the six were missing and released their names. An air force mission including army officials, medical and rabbinate teams, is heading for the site in the morning.

"We are in Romania in order to train our soldiers in territories most similarly resembling our areas if fighting," said IDF spokesman Avi Benayahu Monday evening, explaining that the helicopter was participating in an exercise to train the air force in unknown mountainous terrain to prepare it "for war or special operations." In April, the Jerusalem Post reported that now locked out of Turkey, Israel's air force was looking for new training grounds -- especially ones offering long-range mission possibilities.

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