One dead and another seriously injured after Super Puma helicopter crash in NSW

• Authorities received a distress signal 
• Emergency services were called to the scene
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By PRANAV HARISH FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 04:22 GMT, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 05:29 GMT, 22 November 2024

A passenger has died and a pilot has been injured after a US-registered helicopter crashed in southwest New South Wales. 

The Super Puma helicopter crashed at Corrong Road in One Tree, around 40km west of Hay, just before midday on Friday during a ‘ferry flight’ 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 could not be saved.

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 at 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 Mail Australia they received a distress signal from an emergency locator transmitter. 

A male passenger died and the pilot suffered minor injuries after the chopper crashed just before midday on Friday during a ‘ferry flight’ from Broken Hill to Albury (pictured stock image)

‘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 [assisted] 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. 

The Australian Transport Safety Burau (ATSB) said it will investigate the crash over the coming days. 

Officials will interview witnesses and will also examine pilot and maintenance records along with flight data once it is retrieved. 

The ATSB has been contacted for further comment. 

The Super Puma helicopter crashed at Corrong Road at One Tree, around 40km west of Hay, in southwest NSW (pictured map of the location)

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One dead and another seriously injured after Super Puma helicopter crash in NSW

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