Name of pilot released in fatal Columbia County helicopter crash

“My husband told me on the phone the day before the accident that he ‘loved me’…” At around noon on the 28th, at a funeral home in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do. Jang Gwang-ja (71), the wife of the late Captain Park Hyeon-woo (73), who died in a helicopter crash while fighting a wildfire in Uiseong, Gyeongbuk-do, said,

Name of pilot released in fatal Columbia County helicopter crash

Yakima helicopter pilot Matt Tarter, 34, died in a helicopter crash near Dayton, Wednesday, March 19, Columbia County Coroner Maci Lindley confirmed.

Fatal helicopter crash South of Dayton

DAYTON - A helicopter spraying weeds along the South Touchet River south of Dayton flew into transmission lines and crashed March 19. The unidentified pilot of the Bell 206B helicopter, who was the only occupant, was killed. The crash occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. about six miles south of Dayton across the river from the South Touchet Road. Numerous emergency vehicles from the Columbia...