SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Authorities say a helicopter hit power lines and crashed near I-70 west of Columbus Saturday, killing the pilot and causing a series of crashes.
The Ohio state highway patrol said the Bell 206L-4 aircraft was flying near the interstate in Springfield Township in Clark County when it hit the lines and crashed into a cornfield shortly after noon.
The pilot, 36-year-old Isaac Lee Santos of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was killed.
The Springfield News-Sun says the aircraft was owned by a firm doing aerial applications such as herbicide and insecticide.
Power lines fell onto the westbound and eastbound lanes of I-70, resulting in minor crashes of seven vehicles.