FREDERICK, Md. - Federal investigators are at the scene of a collision between an airplane and a helicopter near a Maryland airport that killed three men.
The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into what caused the Cirrus SR22 plane and a Robinson R44 helicopter to collide in the air Thursday. Investigators were combing the scene Friday for those answers.
All three men aboard the helicopter were killed. They were identified as 29-year-old Christopher Parsons of Westminster, Maryland; 35-year-old Breandan McFawn of Cumberland, Maryland; and 47-year-old William Jenkins of Morrison, Colorado.
Two men inside the airplane survived after deploying a parachute to slow the aircraft's descent before it landed in trees.
The FAA says the helicopter was in a training exercise when the collision occurred.
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Entities 0 Name: Maryland Count: 3 1 Name: Westminster Count: 1 2 Name: Md. Count: 1 3 Name: Cumberland Count: 1 4 Name: Christopher Parsons Count: 1 5 Name: Robinson Count: 1 6 Name: FREDERICK Count: 1 7 Name: National Transportation Safety Board Count: 1 8 Name: The Associated Press Count: 1 9 Name: William Jenkins of Morrison Count: 1 10 Name: FAA Count: 1 11 Name: Breandan McFawn Count: 1 12 Name: Cirrus Count: 1 13 Name: Colorado Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1tQGZSj Title: Three dead in helicopter-small plane collision at Maryland airport Description: (CNN) -- Three people died and two were injured when a small aircraft and a helicopter collided Thursday afternoon at a municipal airport in Frederick, Maryland, according to Frederick County Fire Chief Denise Pouget. Maryland State Police told CNN it "appeared" to have been an in-flight collision.
