Wow that's crazy!! That heli school must use O88 as a stop I've seen them out there before. What are the odds of this happening... bad day for those pilots

At least both pilots walked away, which is about the best you can hope for in that situation.

Very glad to hear both walked away, this type of incident is not often as fortunate.

Typical news reporting......8 miles south of O88 isn't O88.........Hell she crashed in another county, and the Beechcraft pilot in yet another county. Helicopters once disabled don't tend to go very far.

Have to wonder, though, with all the blinking lights out there on the 1000's of windmills and the assortment of radio towers, one or both didn't pick up the anticollision and nav lights of the other. There's lots of dark out there, interspersed with lots of blinking lights. Usually other targets that are properly lit are pretty easy to see in most night environments.

Flynengr

So he was 8 miles from an airport with a wounded plane, so he then tried to fly it to an airport 20 miles away just to crash just short of the airport? I wonder how true that is or if its just bad reporting.

And it must have been only a mile or two from Delta International. Always could have put it down there....

Bad reporting. Byron is 20 south of rio vista. 8 miles south ( who knows where they got that figure) puts it close to half way in between.

Gosh, how unusual to have bad reporting of an aviation incident! I've never seen that before.

Cary