"rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters. The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision between an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and Enstrom 280C helicopter over Hammonton Municipal Airport. Only the pilots were on board each aircraft. One person was killed and another was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries."
"Investigators will likely first look to review any communications between the two pilots and whether they were able to see each other, said Alan Diehl, a former crash investigator for the FAA and NTSB. "Virtually all midair collisions are a failure to what they call 'see and avoid,'" Diehl said. "Clearly they'll be looking at the out-of-cockpit views of the two aircraft and seeing if one pilot was approaching from the blind side.""
Two Enstrom helicopters, an F-28A and an 280C, collided midair over Hammonton Municipal Airport around 11:25 a.m. Only the two pilots were aboard; one person was killed and the other sustained life-threatening injuries and was hospitalized. Video showed a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground and flames engulfed one aircraft before police and fire crews extinguished the fire. Hammonton is a town of about 15,000 in Atlantic County, New Jersey, near the Pine Barrens and about 35 miles southeast of Philadelphia. The FAA and NTSB will investigate, with reviewers examining pilot communications and out-of-cockpit views for see-and-avoid failures.
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