ELGIN, Minn. — Authorities are investigating a fatal helicopter crash in southeastern Minnesota.
According to KTTC, an NBC affiliate in Rochester, officials with the Wabasha County Sheriff's Office say the pilot of a crop-dusting helicopter died when it crashed near Elgin, Minnesota, about 10 miles northeast of Rochester.
The Wabasha County Sheriff reports that the pilot was Corey James Adcock, a 40-year-old man from Victoria County Texas. Adcock was pronounced dead at the scene.
Witnesses told KTTC that as the chopper was spraying crops on Monday afternoon the blades got caught in overhead power lines. This caused the chopper to crash, and then start on fire.
"Second one in 23 years, I'm just glad it hadn't happened more often," Chief Deputy Jim Warren of Wabasha County told KTTC. "Some accidents you would think would happen more often because of the dangerousness of the job, but you know these pilots are very skilled, and these accidents are still gonna happen no matter how skilled of a pilot you're gonna be."
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are on scene and looking into the sequence of events that led to the fatal crash.
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