A witness says a helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a power line then crashed into a barge Thursday. Local officials say two people on the helicopter were killed. 19,946 people ...

A helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, on Thursday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed. Two people were aboard the aircraft when it ...

A Hughes 369D helicopter crashed on a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, on Thursday, Aug. 7 East Alton is roughly 20 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri Two people died as a ...

Helicopters are uniquely designed to offer benefits in the areas of emergency medicine, search and rescue, and firefighting, to name a few. While versatile, because helicopters do frequently fly and ...

A docked barge burned on the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill., on Aug. 7 after a utility helicopter working on an Ameren Illinois power project struck a line and crashed onto the vessel, killing two ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. — Communities in Missouri and Illinois are mourning the lives of two men who died in the helicopter crash above the Mississippi River near West Alton on Thursday. The Office of the ...

Two people were killed Thursday after the helicopter they were in struck power lines crossing the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge below, police said. The accident happened around 11 a.m. as ...

WEST ALTON, Missouri — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report on the fatal helicopter crash on the Mississippi River on Aug. 7. In the report, the NTSB details a ...

The helicopter collided with power lines and subsequently crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River and experienced a post-crash fire, said the NTSB Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at ...