One particular person died and every other used to be injured when their helicopter crashed Thursday onto a frozen reservoir in southeast Idaho, government stated.
More than one businesses spoke back to the Ririe Reservoir east of Idaho Falls within the past due afternoon, the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a statement.
First responders traveled to the web page the use of snowmobiles and located two other people throughout the helicopter, it stated. One used to be useless, and the opposite used to be taken to a health center for remedy and anticipated to continue to exist.
Deputies secured the world and notified the Federal Aviation Affiliation and Nationwide Transportation Protection Board, the sheriff’s administrative center stated.
Deputies positioned a downed energy line within the house, in keeping with the sheriff’s administrative center.
“There is just one spot that a large energy line is going throughout, and so whether or not that is a think about it [the crash] or now not, we are nonetheless looking to decide,” Sgt. Bryan Lovell of the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Workplace told KIFI-TV.
Officials closed the reservoir and the world across the crash web page on account of the downed energy line and risky ice prerequisites.
The reason for the crash used to be underneath investigation.
The incident in Idaho marked the most recent in a string of latest aviation crashes within the U.S. On Wednesday, officers stated two other people died after two small planes collided in midair in Arizona, and two days sooner than that, a Delta Air Strains airplane flipped upside down whilst touchdown in Toronto. The entire passengers survived.
On Jan. 31, a medical jet crash in Philadelphia killed seven other people and two days sooner than that, a midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial airplane in Washington, D.C. killed 67 other people.
