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Six killed as two helicopters crash in Arizona

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-30 14:01

LOS ANGELES - Six people were killed and one was seriously injured on Sunday when two medical helicopters collided on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, air officials said.

Six people were killed and one was seriously injured on Sunday when two medical helicopters collided on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, air officials said. [Agencies]

The helicopters crashed near Flagstaff at about 3.45 p.m. PDT (6:45 p.m. EDT), said Ian Gregor, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles.

Preliminary reports indicated at least one patient was among the three people killed in a helicopter operated by Air Methods Corp, Gregor said. The other four fatalities, as well as the injury, occurred aboard a helicopter operated by Classic Helicopter of Utah, he added.

Nobody on the ground was killed, Gregor said.

A spokesman with the Flagstaff Police Dept. said the crash caused a brushfire of about 10 to 15 acres, which was quickly contained.