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Nine believed dead in California helicopter crash

Wed Aug 6, 2008 4:33pm EDT
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Nine people are believed dead after a helicopter transporting them to a northern California wildfire crashed, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said on Wednesday.

FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said on a recorded telephone message that another four aboard the helicopter were critically burned in the crash on Tuesday evening approximately 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Redding in remote terrain.

The helicopter, with a two-person crew and carrying 11 firefighters, crashed under unknown circumstances, Gregor said.

FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the way to the scene of the crash, Gregor added. (Reporting by Jim Christie, editing by Dan Whitcomb and Sandra Maler)


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