2 deputies released from hospital following LASD helicopter crash

Two of 5 deputies are out of the hospital after they had been injured when a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division helicopter crashed in Angeles Crest close to the San Gabriel Reservoir Saturday.

The unidentified deputies had been launched from the hospital Sunday night time, LASD Deputy Koener confirmed.

The deputies had been helping the Los Angeles County Hearth Division with a car rollover name when Air Rescue 5 went down, in keeping with Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

“The helicopter suffered some malfunction of some kind,” Villanueva stated following the crash. The affected person from the automotive crash had not been picked up when the chopper crashed, officers later stated.

The helicopter rolled over after hitting the bottom and got here near falling a whole bunch of toes right into a canyon beneath, video confirmed.

One of many 5 deputies was critically injured within the crash. A health care provider who was aboard the helicopter for a experience alongside was additionally injured.

Not one of the accidents had been thought-about to be life threatening.

The reason for the crash is being investigated by the NTSB.

The incident got here precisely one month after a Huntington Seaside Police Division helicopter crashed in Newport Seaside.

Police Officer Nicholas Vella was killed, and a pilot was injured in that crash.