Helicopter crashes near Lakeville Airport causing fire and deaths, Lakeville MN
Fire & ArsonA helicopter crashed near Lakeville Airport after hitting a train on the tracks. The crash caused a large fire and multiple fatalities. The helicopter had been flying from several locations before the accident. All pilots involved were experienced, including a former veteran.
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Oh, wow, and I, yeah, that's chilly, and I'm seeing on the news here they had a, outside of Lakeville Airport, I believe it was, they had a helicopter crash yesterday, did you hear anything on that one?
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Yeah, one of our guys in the fire engine slugs, he was on Farmington Fire, and they were paging out there everybody to respond to that.
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And, yeah, it was a newer helicopter, and then they were flying along or partnering up with a heliway, and then left the new Richmond airport,
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and then flew over Rosemount.
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My wife and I saw him earlier in the day.
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And then they flew over to Eden Curry to do a show, a fly-in.
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Then they filled up, and then they left flying cloud, and then they did a fly-in over in Jordan.
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And then when they took off, they went separate ways.
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The Healy went one way, and this helicopter that craft went the other way.
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And then they barreled into the side of a progressive rail train that was just sitting on the tracks just beyond the air.
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airport and I guess there was a tremendous fire there afterward too.
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So it's too bad.
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Apparently both all three pilots, the one on the Huey, then the two and the one that crashed were all pilots and were a former vet also.
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Lakeville, MN
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