The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mentioned the Bell UH-1B “Huey” plane crashed alongside Route 17 in Logan County at about 5pm on Wednesday.
Everybody on board had been killed, mentioned Ray Bryant, chief of operations for the Logan County emergency ambulance service authority.
A Vietnam-era helicopter showcased in motion films crashed on a rural West Virginia street, killing all six individuals on board.
The helicopter crashed in clear climate on a street close to the native airport, he mentioned.
“All the cab of it was on fireplace,” Mr Bryant mentioned in a telephone interview on Thursday.
“It was recognised by the primary responders as being a helicopter from this space as a result of we see it so much,” he mentioned.
The crash occurred throughout an annual reunion for helicopter fanatics at MARPAT Aviation in Logan.
It was scheduled to start on Tuesday and finish on Sunday, in keeping with MARPAT’s web site.
In the course of the occasion, guests might signal as much as journey or fly the historic helicopter, described by organisers as one of many final of its form nonetheless flying.
The helicopter was flown by the 114th Assault Helicopter Firm, The Knights of the Sky, in Vinh Lengthy, Vietnam, all through a lot of the Nineteen Sixties, in keeping with MARPAT.
After the Huey returned to the US in 1971, the web site says, it was featured in films like Die Arduous, The Rock and Below Siege: Darkish Territory.
Neither reunion organisers nor MARPAT officers returned requests for a touch upon Thursday.
Patty Belcher, who lives close by, was driving to the store when she came across the crash.
“There was smoke so thick that you just couldn’t hardly see nothing however smoke and flames,” she mentioned by telephone on Thursday.
“It was coming down the ditch line on the righthand aspect, and I mentioned, ‘My God, I higher flip round. It’d catch this truck on fireplace.’ So I circled and got here again.”
