A helicopter crashed right into a radio tower Sunday evening in Houston, Texas, leaving a couple of folks useless, together with a kid, in line with officers.
The Houston Hearth Division stated the incident came about within the town’s Larger East Finish group at 7:54 p.m. The non-public airplane with 4 folks onboard both struck a cable coming from the tower or in fact struck the tower, Houston Police Leader J. Noe Diaz stated at a information convention, in line with The New York Instances.
There have been no casualties at the floor, Diaz stated.
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A helicopter crashed right into a radio tower in Houston, Texas. (Houston Hearth Division)
It used to be now not in an instant recognized if all 4 folks onboard the helicopter had died. Officers stated they didn’t know the age of the deceased kid.
Hearth officers stated a blaze the scale of 2 to a few blocks began in a grass box after the radio tower collapsed. No different constructions at the floor had been impacted by way of the crash.
Houston mayor John Whitmire stated the incident used to be “tragic” however that “it’s lucky it wasn’t worse,” as a gasoline tank close to the scene and houses within the space weren’t impacted.
A couple of folks, together with a kid, had been killed within the crash. (Houston Hearth Division)
The tower “is surrounded by way of citizens and that is the reason the place we had been very lucky that it did not topple in a single course or every other,” he stated. “The fireball used to be just about remoted.”
The mayor stated there have been some energy outages for citizens close to the scene, however the selection of folks impacted and the way lengthy they’ll have outages used to be now not in an instant recognized.
Some citizens advised The New York Instances the crash shook their houses and felt like an earthquake. One resident stated an explosion then took place and the lighting fixtures in his house in brief flickered off and on.
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There have been no casualties at the floor. (Houston Hearth Division)
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Town council member Mario Castillo stated at the social media platform X that he used to be tracking the helicopter crash and that it used to be a “personal traveling helicopter” fairly than one who belonged to the Houston Police Division.
The incident stays underneath investigation. The Federal Aviation Management is main the investigation into the crash.
