South New Berlin native killed in Mass. helicopter crash
BOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Police say a woman training to operate a helicopter after cutting its engines could not get the engines to restart and crashed in Massachusetts, killing the instructor and injuring the student pilot Wednesday.
The FAA instructor has been indentified as Michael J. Wheeler, 58, of Watertown, N.Y. Mr. Wheeler, a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam, is the son of Corda Wheeler and the late Ralph Wheeler of South New Berlin. He was known to friends locally as “Jamie.”
Boxborough Police Sgt. Warren O’Brien says officers and firefighters responding to the crash scene late Wednesday afternoon found the woman outside the helicopter and Mr. Wheeler trapped and dead inside the aircraft.
The woman told investigators that they could not get the engines to restart before the helicopter slammed onto the ground in a wooded area on Beaver Brook Road, in Boxborough.
A medical helicopter evacuated the woman from for treatment at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate information on her condition. Authorities withheld her identity.
Mr. Wheeler leaves behind a wife, Barbara, and daughter, Erin, in Watertown.
The FAA instructor has been indentified as Michael J. Wheeler, 58, of Watertown, N.Y. Mr. Wheeler, a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam, is the son of Corda Wheeler and the late Ralph Wheeler of South New Berlin. He was known to friends locally as “Jamie.”
Boxborough Police Sgt. Warren O’Brien says officers and firefighters responding to the crash scene late Wednesday afternoon found the woman outside the helicopter and Mr. Wheeler trapped and dead inside the aircraft.
The woman told investigators that they could not get the engines to restart before the helicopter slammed onto the ground in a wooded area on Beaver Brook Road, in Boxborough.
A medical helicopter evacuated the woman from for treatment at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate information on her condition. Authorities withheld her identity.
Mr. Wheeler leaves behind a wife, Barbara, and daughter, Erin, in Watertown.
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