Overview

• Local authorities said five people were hospitalized after a helicopter came down by Huntington Beach along Pacific Coast Highway.
• Two occupants of the helicopter survived, and several injured were bystanders in a beach parking area near a hotel where the fuselage came to rest between palm trees.
• In a separate incident near Fort Worth, a light aircraft crashed close to Hicks Airport, and firefighters later brought a post-crash blaze under control.
• The Fort Worth Fire Department confirmed two fatalities in the Texas crash, and the Federal Aviation Administration opened an investigation.
• The New York Times identified the Texas aircraft as a Beech King Air C90, while officials have not reported causes for either accident.