Helicopter crashes into radio tower in Texas, four dead

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Helicopter crashes into radio tower in Texas, four *****

Four people aboard a helicopter have been ******* when it crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas and burst into flames.

The helicopter went down just before 8pm on Sunday in a neighbourhood east of downtown after taking off from Ellington Field, about 25km away, Mayor John Whitmire said at a news conference. He didn’t know the flight’s destination.

Officials said no one on the ground was injured, and no nearby homes were damaged, though some vehicles were. The ****** sparked a ***** that burned about 90-180m of grass, officials said.

Firefighters at a nearby station heard the ****** and responded, Whitmire said. He said it was a “terrible accident scene” and that the tower and helicopter were destroyed. Some area residents lost power.

“It is surrounded by residences and that’s where we were very fortunate – that it didn’t topple in one direction or another,” Whitmire said.

“And the fireball pretty much was isolated.”

The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the ****** of the Robinson R44 II helicopter, which preliminary information shows was operating as an air tour flight. The NTSB said the helicopter crashed into a radio tower “under unknown circumstances,” resulting in a *****.

Officials said the four people aboard the helicopter included a child but the identities of the victims and their ages have not yet been released.

The Federal Aviation Administration is also investigating.

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