One person dead and one injured after two helicopters crash in New Jersey | New Jersey
One person died and another was seriously injured when two helicopters crashed in a town in southern New Jersey.
Police in Hammonton, New Jersey, responded to a report of an aviation accident around 11:25 a.m. Sunday, according to Denise Mazzeo, the town’s deputy city clerk.
Police and fire crews extinguished the flames that engulfed a helicopter, Mazzeo told The Associated Press.
The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a mid-air collision between an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and an Enstrom 280C helicopter over the Hammonton municipal airport. There were only pilots in each plane.
One person died in the incident, and another person was taken to nearby hospitals and his life was stated to be in danger. In the video taken from the scene, the helicopter can be seen rapidly turning towards the ground.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are continuing the investigation.
Hammonton is a town of approximately 15,000 people located in Atlantic County in southern New Jersey, approximately 35 miles (56km) southeast of Philadelphia. The town has an agricultural history and is located near the Pine Barrens, a forested wilderness covering more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares).
