A news helicopter from Philadelphia crashed Tuesday night in a heavily wooded area of Burlington County, New Jersey, killing the pilot and a photographer, WPVI’s news station, 6ABC, said on its website early Wednesday.
“We know that a pilot and a photographer from our news team went down with Chopper 6 while returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore,” the news station said.
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The crash occurred shortly after 8 p.m. near Quaker Bridge Atsion Road and Mullica Hill Road, a section of Wharton State Forest in Washington Township.
The helicopter was a 2013 American Eurocopter AS-350A-STAR, which 6abc leases from U.S. Helicopters Inc. based in North Carolina, the news station said.
The names or the conditions of the victims were not released.
“They have a long history with our station. They’ve been working as part of the Action News team for years,” Katherine Scott, general assignment reporter for 6ABC, said in a report from Washington Township.
New Jersey State Police located the wreckage deep in a wooded area and the Federal Aviation Administration has been notified, according to the station.
