Chopper Crash Kills 5 Leaving Auto Race
Investigators examined the wreckage of a helicopter to determine why it struck a power line and crashed on a highway in Monroe, killing all five people on board. The helicopter should have been flying at 500 feet, more than three times the height of the wire, said Butch Wilson, lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. “He could have been trying to make an emergency landing,” he said. The chopper was ferrying people from Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race in Charlotte when it went down about 40 minutes after midnight in the median of U.S. 74.
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