NTSB: Pilot error probable cause in 2008 chopper crash

March 16, 2010 (CHICAGO)

The Air Angels chopper was headed to Children's Memorial Hospital when it apparently clipped a radio tower and crashed in an adjacent field. One-year-old Kirstin Blockinger and three others on board were killed.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was the pilot's "responsibility to see and avoid the radio tower."

Read more about this story in Wednesday's edition of the Daily Herald, an ABC7 news partner.

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