Second pilot involved in New Jersey helicopter crash dies, police say

A 2nd chopper aviator critically injured successful a midair collision successful South Jersey has died from his injuries, constabulary said Monday. The different aviator progressive successful the clang died astatine the scene.

Hammonton Police identified the pilots arsenic 65-year-old Kenneth L. Kirsch, of Carney's Point, New Jersey, and 71-year-old Michael Greenberg of Sewell, New Jersey. Police said Kirsch was piloting an Enstrom exemplary F-28A helicopter, and was flown to a infirmary successful captious information aft the crash.

According to police, Kirsch died from his injuries astatine the hospital.

Greenberg, who was piloting an Enstrom exemplary 280C, was pronounced dormant astatine the clang tract adjacent Basin Road and White Horse Pike successful Atlantic County. The pilots were the lone radical connected committee some choppers, the Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday.

Both helicopters had taken disconnected from Hammonton Municipal Airport soon earlier the collision astatine 11:25 a.m. One of the choppers was wholly engulfed successful flames erstwhile firefighters arrived.

The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are investigating the crash.

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• New Jersey
• Atlantic County
• Helicopter Crash