Small plane appeared ‘out of control’ before it collided with Pennsylvania police helicopter, NTSB says | CNN

Investigators say a small Cessna 150 airplane appeared to be “out of control” when it crashed Wednesday evening into the back of a police helicopter at a central Pennsylvania airport. An experienced pilot who also was an emergency room doctor was killed and two state troopers were injured when the two aircraft collided at Carlisle Regional Airport in Cumberland County, around 120 miles west of Philadelphia, police said. Friday morning, the NTSB moved the wreckage of the helicopter and the Cessna to a facility where it can be examined. Investigators also recovered memory cards from the electronics in the aircraft, NTSB investigator-in-charge Aaron McCarter said at a news conference. “What we don’t know is what’s on those data cards, but they were intact,” McCarter said Friday. “That is very good news from a data standpoint.” Neither aircraft was required to have a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, often called “black boxes.” The incident comes amid increased attention to airspace shared between helicopters and planes since last year’s midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people. In that incident, a US Army Blackh