InciWeb Idaho: Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing, Two Injured

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InciWeb Idaho: Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing, Two Injured

Related Breaking News: PHOENIX -- Two helicopters collided in midair and crashed while covering a police pursuit in central Phoenix Friday afternoon, killing at least two people.

InciWeb: Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing, Two Injured:
Editor: Both pilots on the helicopter were assessed and flown to McCall for treatment. One pilot was treated and released, the other pilot has been taken to Boise where he is being treated for a non-life threatening injury.

Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing, Two Injured

Incident: East Zone Complex
Released: 20 hrs. ago

Date: July 26, 2007
Contact: East Zone Fire Complex Fire information (208) 634-1890

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing, Two Injured

McCall, ID - A Bell 214ST helicopter working on contract to the
Payette
National Forest in support of fire suppression on the Loon Fire
northeast
of McCall made an emergency landing at about ten minutes after 8 p.m.
last
night. The two people on board the pilot and a mechanic -- were
both
injured and taken by air evacuation to the McCall airport and then
McCall
Memorial Hospital. Both were able to remove themselves from the
aircraft
and walk to safety after the emergency landing. The aircraft did not
catch
on fire and the aircrafts radio continued to operate, allowing the
two to
communicate with Payette National Forest dispatchers.

The names and condition of the two contract employees have not been
released. One of the individuals was treated and released and the other
remains at the local hospital.

The aircraft appears to have suffered significant damage. A National
Transportation Safety Board investigator has been assigned and a Forest
Service investigation team is traveling to McCall. Additional details
will
be released when they become available.

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