LAS VEGAS (AP) – A Las Vegas police helicopter crashed on a residential street Wednesday and two police officers were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the Hughes 530 helicopter to go down just before 1:30 p.m. northeast of downtown Las Vegas.
The aircraft didn’t catch fire, and the Federal Aviation Administration reported that the injuries to the two people aboard the aircraft weren’t life-threatening.
Police Officer Laura Meltzer said the two officers were taken to University Medical Center, and there were no reports that anyone on the ground was hurt.
The wreckage came to rest tilted on its side in a neighborhood of single-story homes.