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Three dead in helicopter collision near Oregon airport
A Robinson R22 and an Airbus helicopter collided midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport on Thursday, killing all three people aboard.
In brief
A Robinson R22 and an Airbus helicopter collided midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport on Thursday, killing all three people aboard. Three people died when two helicopters collided midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport in Oregon on Thursday afternoon. Originally reported by BBC News.
Two helicopters collide near Oregon airport
A Robinson R22 and an Airbus helicopter collided midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon. Both aircraft crashed in a field adjacent to a highway.
Three people killed in the collision
The victims were Maddie Aasbo, a twenty-two-year-old flight instructor from Texas; Christopher James Joughin, a thirty-one-year-old student pilot from the United Kingdom; and Tyler Delane Sturdevant, thirty-eight, of Newberg, Oregon.
Investigation underway, cause unclear
The FAA and NTSB are investigating. Witnesses reported the collision occurred about five hundred feet off the ground about a mile east of the airport. McMinnville Airport has no air traffic control tower.
In short
Three people died when two helicopters collided midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport in Oregon on Thursday afternoon.
