Newlywed Helo Crash in Texas
A fatal crash for the couple and pilot as they depart the evening's festivities. The helo was N416WT, a Bell 206B registered to the groom's family construction business.
Newlyweds killed in helicopter crash while departing wedding ceremony, report says
Will Byler, Bailee Byler, helicopter pilot died in crash, Houstonian reports
By Mariah Medina - Digital JournalistPosted: 3:01 PM, November 04, 2018 Updated: 4:40 AM, November 05, 2018
UVALDE, Texas - A newlywed couple leaving their wedding ceremony in a helicopter died early Sunday morning when the helicopter crashed, according to a report from the Houstonian. Will Byler, his wife, Bailee Ackerman Byler, and their pilot died in the crash, according to the Houstonian, the student newspaper for Sam Houston State University.
The newspaper reported that the Bylers were both in their senior year at the university. Eric Smith, a friend of the Ackerman family, posted to Facebook early Sunday morning that the couple and the helicopter pilot had died in the crash after the ceremony. Jacob Martinez, an individual working the event, shared video of the moment the couple took off in the helicopter.
The Uvalde County Sheriff's Office said it received a call from an aviation monitoring center about a possible downed aircraft in northwest Uvalde around midnight. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, game wardens, Border Patrol agents, the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department and Uvalde Emergency Medical Services arrived in the area of Chalk Bluff Park off of Highway 55 to help search for the helicopter. Authorities located the crashed helicopter around daybreak, the Sheriff's Office said. The San Antonio Fire Department deployed 10 members of its Technical Rescue Team to assist the Federal Aviation Administration with the investigation, but they returned to San Antonio Sunday night.
NTSB said in a tweet Sunday morning that the helicopter involved is a Bell 206B.Officials with the NTSB said they would not release any information about the crash until Monday.
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