A Schweizer 300 crashed today in central Massachusetts. The student pilot survived but the instructor did not make it.
My thoughts go out to those in close relation to the instructor.
To those of us who will be flying tomorrow and in the days to come let's fly safe. If anyone has a 300 RFM at their disposal please post the advisory about throttle chops at higher DA.
One of the news reports:
Helicopter crash kills instructor in Boxborough, Mass.
(NECN: Josh Brogadir) - The NTSB is on the way to the scene of a deadly helicopter crash in Central Massachusetts. Two people were aboard when the chopper went down off Beaver Brook Road.
The medical examiner is in the woods alongside Federal Aviation Authorities who have yet to release the name of the instructor who was killed.
"You see that fire engine there, (the helicopter is) about probably 150 yards into that wooded area over there," said Boxborough, MA Police Sergeant Warren O'Brien.
An instructor is dead, a student pilot in the final stages of training injured after a helicopter went down into the woods near a field in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
It crashed around 4:45pm in the afternoon off Beaverbrook Road.
"The woman told the officers and fire personnel on the scene that they had been doing a training drill of some sort in which the engine was cut to the helicopter. They were unable to get the engine to restart and they attempted to make it to the open field in order to land the craft. They did not make it to the field and crashed into the woods," Sgt. O'Brien said.
The instructor was in his mid- 50s.
The student, a woman about 40 years old was conscious and speaking to emergency crews complaining of leg pain, then was medevaced from a nearby soccer field to UMass Medical Center in Worcester.
Police said the wayward flight originated from Norwood airport, from Blue Hill Helicopters.
According to the FAA, the small training helicopter similar to this one, is a 2008 Schweizer registered to SJ Rotorcraft Corporation out of Norfolk, Massachusetts.
By 7pm, police blocked off the scene as investigators got to the crash site.
Soon after, four tow trucks arrived, waiting for the victim to be removed from the wreckage, planning to tow the helicopter away.
In addition to state police, Boxborough police and the Middlesex County sheriff's department, two officials from the FAA are now here investigating.
The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to arrive in the morning.