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Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.<\/p>\n

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Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said 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.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration\u00a0described 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.<\/p>\n

One person was killed and another was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Hammonton is a town of about 15,000 people located in Atlantic County in the southern part of New Jersey, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia. The town has a history of agriculture and is located near the Pine Barrens, a forested wilderness area that covers more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares).<\/p>\n

The FAA and\u00a0National Transportation Safety Board\u00a0will be investigating the crash, Friel said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtually all midair collisions are a failure to what they call \u2018see and avoid,\u2019\u201d Diehl said. \u201cClearly they\u2019ll be looking at the out-of-cockpit views of the two aircraft and seeing if one pilot was approaching from the blind side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although it was mostly cloudy at the time of the crash, winds were light and visibility was good, according to the weather forecasting company AccuWeather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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