Accidents
Bahamas AW139 Crash Kills Seven
Billionaire Chris Cline and flight school operator Geoff Painter are among those killed during a night flight of AW139.

A Leonardo AW139 crash early on the morning of July 4 has killed American coal billionaire Chris Cline and six others, including the operator of a popular West Palm Beach, Florida helicopter school, Geoff Painter. The 2008 model year AW139, N32CC, went down in what is being described as black hole conditions shortly after taking off from Cline’s private island of Big Grand Cay around 12:45 a.m. local time for a 117-nm flight to Fort Lauderdale. However, the helicopter was not reported missing for 14 hours.