A veteran pilot has died after the helicopter he was flying crashed in New Hampshire while heading to Rhode Island Sunday, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has said.
Officials learned about a possible helicopter crash at 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 8, the department said. JBI Helicopter Services, which is based in Pembroke, N.H., said that one of their helicopters took off from their Croydon location around 7:30 p.m. Soon after, the helicopter could not be tracked on radar.
The helicopter was expected to land at a job site in Quonset, R.I., that evening, according to N.H. Fish and Game officials. Crews searched the woods off Pine Hill Road in Croydon for the missing helicopter. It was found at around 1:50 a.m. on Monday, the department said.
The helicopter had sustained substantial damage. The pilot, who was the sole occupant, was found dead. He was identified as 73-year-old Carl Svenson, of Loudon, N.H.
Svenson had been a pilot for roughly 50 years and started working for JBI Helicopter Services in the 1980s, N.H. Fish and Game said. His body was brought to Newton-Bartlett Funeral Home.
The crash remains under investigation.
