- Authorities received a distress signal
- Emergency services were called to the scene
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A person has died and another is seriously injured after a US-registered helicopter crashed in southwest New South Wales.
The Super Puma helicopter crashed at Corrong Road in One Tree, near Hay, just before midday on Friday during a journey from Broken Hill to Albury.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and treated a male passenger believed to be aged in his 40s, but he died at the scene.
He is yet to be formally identified.
Paramedics treated the pilot – a 39-year-old man – for minor injuries before he was taken to Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
The pilot and the male passenger were the only two people on board the chopper the time of the crash.
Police have set up a crime scene and officials from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (AMSA) will investigate what may have caused the crash.
An AMSA spokesman told Daily Mal Australia they received a distress signal from an emergency locator transmitter.
‘AMSA tasked a Victorian Air Ambulance … helicopter from Bendigo and the AMSA Essendon-based Challenger rescue aircraft to initiate a search,’ the spokesman said.
‘A local skydiving aircraft assisting with the search locating the crash site not long after’.
The spokesman said crews from the NSW Rural Fire Service were at the scene and the rescue aircraft is returning back to Essendon, in Melbourne’s north-west.
Daily Mail has contacted the NSW Rural Fire Service for further comment.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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