Accidents
Two Dead In NY Powerline Copter Crash
The crew was forced to jump for their lives

The four-man crew aboard a 1981 Aerospatiale AS355F2 Twin Squirrel were forced to jump for their lives October 30 after their helicopter became entangled with power lines and caught fire while the crew was installing pulleys for installing of fiber-optic cable. Two crew members did not survive.

The accident happened at 4:16 p.m. in rural Beekmantown in northeast upstate New York, 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The aircraft was owned by Catalyst Aviation of Hammonton, New Jersey and was flying a mission for the New York Power Authority.

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