Pubdate: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 Source: Reuters (Wire) Copyright: 2002 Reuters Limited U.S.-DONATED COLOMBIAN HELICOPTER CRASHES, SIX DEAD BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A Colombian military UH1N helicopter, donated by the United States for the war on drugs, crashed into guerrilla-controlled mountains on Friday, killing six of the seven crew members on board, the army said. Gen. Luis Favio Garcia blamed the crash on "adverse meteorological conditions," but offered no details. The helicopter was in route to pick up wounded troops when it crashed about 250 miles (400 km) southeast of the capital Bogota, near the town of Solita, in Caqueta province. The area is a stronghold of Latin America's largest guerrilla army, the 17,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The army clashed with a rebel fighters on Thursday near the crash site. FARC is fighting a 38-year-old guerrilla war, fueled in part by money from the cocaine trade, which claims 3,500 lives a year. Rescue workers found one soldier alive at the crash site, and said he had been transferred to a nearby hospital but would not reveal details on his condition. - --- MAP posted-by: Tom