Posted
6/15/2005 05:43:00 PM
by Douglas
I'll bet there was quite a commotion at The Pit Grill this
morning. A helicopter pilot was killed this morning when his chopper crashed in a highway median near the East Texas town of Rusk.
The crash happened 2 1/2 miles southeast of Rusk, about 40 miles south of Tyler. The helicopter was flying north along U.S. 69 when it apparently struck a power line and crashed in the median, said Cherokee County Sheriff James Campbell.
Alternate headline: Pilot 2.5 miles South of Pit Grill gets scattered, smothered and covered.