MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) - Two people have been injured in a helicopter hard landing on Mount Baldy.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department says the chopper went down Thursday about 1,000 feet below the 10,000-foot summit. Video shows the battered craft lying in the snow on the mountain northeast of Los Angeles.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s unclear why the Robinson R-44 made the hard landing, which damaged its tail boom.
Passenger William Francis tells KNBC-TV (https://bit.ly/2ijn0ZE) that the helicopter suddenly lost altitude.
Two people aboard the aircraft weren’t hurt. Two others were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. There’s no word on their conditions but authorities say they were talking after the accident.
KNBC-TV says the helicopter belongs to a tour company and departed from Fullerton, about 40 miles away.
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