CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — A helicopter crashed and burned, killing both of its occupants, after the copter collided in midair over suburban Phoenix with a single-engine plane that landed safely at an airport, authorities said.
Chandler Police Sgt. Jason McClimans confirmed that the collision happened near Chandler Municipal Airport.
McClimans and a Fire Department spokesman, Battalion Chief Keith Welch, confirmed that two people aboard the helicopter were killed.
News video showed a fire crew using a tarp to cove the helicopter’s burned wreckage in brush on what appeared to be a vacant lot or field near the airport’s southern boundary.
News video also showed the plane upright just off a runway. Its fuselage appeared to be intact.
No one on the ground was injured, McClimans said.
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