Robinson R44 helicopter crash In Maryland Highway
R44 helicopter crashed near the Washington and Frederick County line in Maryland early Friday, July 24, 2009. The sources said that three persons were killed of a flight instruction company and a passenger. The three people who worked for Advanced Helicopter Concepts in Frederick and a passenger were killed in the crash.
Interstate lanes in both directions remained closed early Friday at the crash site near Smithsburg, which is about 16 km east of Hagerstown. A blade project out from twisted metal. The wreckage is almost directly beneath a set of power lines. The firefighters arrived at the place minutes after receiving a call at 10:30 p.m.
Wreckage could be seen just off the shoulder of the three eastbound lanes. The Victims names were released, but the dead bodies were being taken to the state medical examiner in Baltimore. Maryland State police said, “The information about the owner of the aircraft and the cause of the crash will come from NTSB, which had conducted a conference on Friday morning at the Hagerstown Regional Airport.”
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records indicate that the Robinson R44 helicopter was owned by Marsan Aviation Inc. the National Transportation Safety Board’s Investigators also came out at the Washington County-Frederick line on the western slope in South Mountain.
The Washington emergency services director Kevin Lewis said that a witness saw the craft flying low when a bright arc of electricity flashed in the air, apparently caused by the helicopter striking a power line. The witness thought the helicopter might have been trying to land along the roadway.
Source: SDNN.com
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