A helicopter crashed on Tuesday night in the Pinelands wilderness area of New Jersey, killing the pilot and a photographer who worked for ABC-TV news team in Philadelphia, WPVI.
The ABC news station said the chopper went down in Wharton State Forest in Washington Township just after 8 p.m. The two members of the ABC news team were returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore.
The station said names of the crew members were being withheld until family members had been notified about the crash.
The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board which has been on the scene.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the helicopter was a Eurocopter AS350B2, which the television station WPVI leases from U.S. Helicopters Inc. in North Carolina.
Topics New Jersey
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