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3rd Feb 2007, 12:06
2 hurt in crash of traffic chopper
TheStar.com - News - 2 hurt in crash of traffic chopper
Helicopter goes down in field near Cambridge
February 03, 2007
Ryan Cureatz
Torstar News Service
Two men were rushed to hospital with serious injuries yesterday after a Toronto radio station helicopter crashed west of Cambridge.
The accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. in a field in North Dumfries Township.
Area residents raced to the scene on snowmobiles to help Waterloo regional police, ambulance crews and firefighters, who used airbags to raise the wreckage off one of the victims.
The helicopter, used by all-news radio station AM 640, had taken off from the Region of Waterloo International Airport, a few kilometres northwest of the crash site, police said.
Police said maintenance work had been done on the helicopter before it took off. Both men were taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital. One was listed in critical condition last night, the other in serious condition.
AM 640 News Director Stephanie Smyth said the helicopter is owned by the Canadian Traffic Network, which provides traffic services to the station. The radio station began using the helicopter last January as part of a new helicopter traffic program by its parent company Corus Entertainment.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the pilot and the mechanic," she said. The two men are employees of Canadian Traffic Network, not the radio station, Smyth said.
The call-in came after children playing at a nearby farm witnessed the crash, Waterloo regional Insp. Bryan Larkin said.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was called in last night to investigate, Larkin said.
(It's an R44 - Rotornut)
TheStar.com - News - 2 hurt in crash of traffic chopper
Helicopter goes down in field near Cambridge
February 03, 2007
Ryan Cureatz
Torstar News Service
Two men were rushed to hospital with serious injuries yesterday after a Toronto radio station helicopter crashed west of Cambridge.
The accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. in a field in North Dumfries Township.
Area residents raced to the scene on snowmobiles to help Waterloo regional police, ambulance crews and firefighters, who used airbags to raise the wreckage off one of the victims.
The helicopter, used by all-news radio station AM 640, had taken off from the Region of Waterloo International Airport, a few kilometres northwest of the crash site, police said.
Police said maintenance work had been done on the helicopter before it took off. Both men were taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital. One was listed in critical condition last night, the other in serious condition.
AM 640 News Director Stephanie Smyth said the helicopter is owned by the Canadian Traffic Network, which provides traffic services to the station. The radio station began using the helicopter last January as part of a new helicopter traffic program by its parent company Corus Entertainment.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the pilot and the mechanic," she said. The two men are employees of Canadian Traffic Network, not the radio station, Smyth said.
The call-in came after children playing at a nearby farm witnessed the crash, Waterloo regional Insp. Bryan Larkin said.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was called in last night to investigate, Larkin said.
(It's an R44 - Rotornut)