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South Carolina sheriff's office helicopter crashes near Charleston International Airport, flights grounded
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
Published August 01, 2023
All commercial flights have been suspended in Charleston, South Carolina, after a sheriff's office helicopter crashed, police confirmed.
In a Twitter post, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said that the helicopter crashed near Charleston International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said that there was only the pilot in the helicopter at the time of the crash.
The unidentified pilot was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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Police said that the pilot experienced a "malfunction" shortly before the crash. They did not provide details of the malfunction, but said that the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the incident.
According to airport officials, flights were temporarily suspended because of an "ongoing incident" at 3:45 p.m.
At 5:30 p.m., Charleston International Airport said that one of their runways have reopened following the crash and that flights have resumed on one runway.
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