Less than 18 minutes into the flight, witnesses saw the tail and main rotor breaking away and smoke pouring from the spinning helicopter. In recent years New York Helicopter, the tour company ...

Michael Fournier worked for a private Southern California company that contracts with Cal Fire and other agencies to provide ...

A phone message left with the helicopter maintenance company was not immediately returned Friday. Fournier’s copter went down in a remote, hilly, smoke-filled area that took a Fresno County ...