{"id":7595,"date":"2025-12-28T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:55:10","slug":"one-person-dead-and-one-injured-after-two-helicopters-crash-in-new-jersey-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7595","title":{"rendered":"One person dead and one injured after two helicopters crash in New Jersey | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One person is dead and another has been left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in a southern New Jersey<\/a> town.<\/p>\n

Hammonton police chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am. 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 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.<\/p>\n

One person was killed and another was transported to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries. Video from the scene showed a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground.<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating.<\/p>\n

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