A helicopter crashed right into a radio tower Sunday evening in Houston, Texas, leaving a number of individuals useless, together with a toddler, based on officers.
The Houston Hearth Division mentioned the incident occurred within the metropolis’s Better East Finish neighborhood at 7:54 p.m. The non-public plane with 4 individuals onboard both struck a cable coming from the tower or truly struck the tower, Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz mentioned at a information convention, based on The New York Occasions.
There have been no casualties on the bottom, Diaz mentioned.
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A helicopter crashed right into a radio tower in Houston, Texas. (Houston Hearth Division)
It was not instantly recognized if all 4 individuals onboard the helicopter had died. Officers mentioned they didn’t know the age of the deceased baby.
Hearth officers mentioned a blaze the scale of two to 3 blocks began in a grass discipline after the radio tower collapsed. No different buildings on the bottom have been impacted by the crash.
Houston mayor John Whitmire mentioned the incident was “tragic” however that “it’s lucky it wasn’t worse,” as a fuel tank close to the scene and houses within the space weren’t impacted.
A number of individuals, together with a toddler, have been killed within the crash. (Houston Hearth Division)
The tower “is surrounded by residents and that is the place we have been very lucky that it did not topple in a single course or one other,” he mentioned. “The fireball was just about remoted.”
The mayor mentioned there have been some energy outages for residents close to the scene, however the variety of individuals impacted and the way lengthy they’ll have outages was not instantly recognized.
Some residents advised The New York Occasions the crash shook their properties and felt like an earthquake. One resident mentioned an explosion then occurred and the lights in his residence briefly flickered on and off.
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There have been no casualties on the bottom. (Houston Hearth Division)
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Metropolis council member Mario Castillo mentioned on the social media platform X that he was monitoring the helicopter crash and that it was a “non-public touring helicopter” slightly than one which belonged to the Houston Police Division.
The incident stays beneath investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration is main the investigation into the crash.
