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By Mandy Taheri and Hollie Silverman
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At least one person is dead, and another is critically injured after two helicopters crashed mid-air in New Jersey on Sunday, the Associated Press reported.
"An Enstrom F-28A helicopter and Enstrom 280C helicopter collided in mid-air near Hammonton Municipal Airport in New Jersey around 12:25 p.m. local time on Sunday," a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Newsweek in an email on Sunday.
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What To Know
The Hammonton Fire Department (HFD) is responding with multiple agencies, including fire, police, and EMS agencies "to an aviation-related incident," the department wrote in a post on Facebook.
The incident occurred in the area of Basin Road and north White House Pike, according to the fire department. Hammonton is about 30 miles northwest of Atlantic City.
The FAA said only the pilot was onboard each aircraft, for a total of two people involved in the collision. One of the pilots is reported dead, and other was transported to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, the AP reported.
Videos, which have not been independently verified by Newsweek, circulating on social media show one of the helicopters spinning around and falling out of the sky. Other videos show a plume of black smoke coming from the crash site.
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Earlier this year, a sightseeing helicopter carrying a family of five crashed into New York's Hudson River, killing all onboard, and in January a fatal collision between an American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk military helicopter killed 67 people.
The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team, an industry-led safety group, reported in January that there were 89 helicopter accidents in 2024, 13 of them fatal, killing 30 people.
A helicopter with the tail number N280MG, as pictured at the crash site, is registered to an owner in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, according to the FAA registry database.
What People Are Saying
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a Sunday X post: "NTSB investigating Sunday's inflight collision involving an Enstrom 280C helicopter and an Enstrom F-28A helicopter in Hammonton, New Jersey."
What Happens Next
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will lead the investigation, the FAA said. The HFD said that "due to the nature of the incident, an extensive investigation at both the state and federal levels will be required."
Update 12/28/25, 2:47 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.
Update 12/28/25, 1:54 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information and comment from the FAA.
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