🚨 The NTSB says two choppers were flying side-by-side just before a mid-air collision
🚨 Video shows one chopper plunging in flames while the other spiraled out of control
🚨Paint chips were found across a wide debris field
HAMMONTON — A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the two helicopters that collided in midair on Dec. 28 were flying parallel to each other before crashing.
The helicopters, an Enstrom F-28A and an Enstrom 280C, crashed after a 10-minute flight from Vineland to Hammonton earlier in the morning, according to FlightAware.com.
Only the pilots, Michael Greenberg, 71, of Sewell and Kenneth L. Kirsch, 65, of Carneys Point, were on board. The report confirms eyewitness reports that said they were flying very close.
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Witness video captures violent impact and fire
After coming in contact with each other, one of the choppers is seen on video falling to the ground. There was substantial damage to the fuselage, tail cone, tail rotor, and main rotor, but no sign of fire. The other chopper pitched upward before spinning clockwise and then falling rapidly. It caught fire when it hit the ground…