VIDEO - A combat Apache helicopter crashed Monday afternoon in Safed area. Two pilots were killed in the incident. Firefighters, paramedics, and the IDF have been rushed to the scene. The chopper hit a power line, and this caused it to spiral, crash into the ground and catch fire within seconds. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene and are working to contain the fire. Shortly after the crash was reported, Hizbullah issued a statement saying that its members were behind the crash. However, IDF officials stress the incident was the result of malfunction. As a result of the accident electricity has been cut off in four communities in the area. Israel Electric Company teams will be sent to the scene as soon as security forces approve their entry to the region. Residents of the nearby Rehaniya community reported that they saw the helicopter crash 50 meters away from a junction adjacent to the community. A number of residents arrived at the crash site on tractors in order to help IDF rescue forces. Tiran Edry, who witnessed the accident, said "I was sitting at home and suddenly I saw a helicopter spiraling in the air and beginning to fall. I immediately called the police." 'Crash result of malfunction' (Photo: Avi Cohen) The helicopter crashed is of the same type of helicopters which crashed on Thursday in the Upper Galilee. Last Thursday Israel Defense Forces officer Ran Kochva, serving as a combat pilot, was killed and three soldiers were wounded as two Apache combat helicopters on their way to Lebanon to assist IDF forces operating against Hizbullah terrorists near Avivim collided and then crashed in the Ramot Naftali area, near the Koach Junction south of Kiryat Shmona. Rescue forces were mobilized to the scene. A separate accident almost ended in disaster on Wednesday, when a Sufa-type F-16 fighter jet encountered difficulties during takeoff, causing the pilots to eject at their southern Air Force base. The two were not injured, and the plane was stopped on the runway through a special net. Hanan Greenberg, Neta Sela, Avi Cohen and Hagai Einav contributed to the report