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Todd Gunther, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters near the crash site that WPVI’s Chopper 6 took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport Tuesday night and “had flown over to report on some Christmas light activity, and then they were returning back to base when the accident occurred.”
Investigators say the Philadelphia television news crew members who died after their helicopter crashed in a southern New Jersey forest were returning from a trip to film a Christmas lights
Killed in the 6ABc chopper crash were the pilot, Monroe Smith of Glenside, Pennsylvania, and a photographer, Christopher Dougherty of Oreland, Pennsylvania.