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KENT ISLAND, Maryland (WBOC / AP) – Emergency teams are looking for two survivors after a helicopter crash in Chesapeake Bay Saturday afternoon.
Police captain Brian Albert, of the Maryland Natural Resources Police, said that the helicopter had crashed into the water about 800 meters from Bloody Point, at the far end south of Kent Island.
Queen Anne County Deputy Chief of Emergency Services, Scott Wheatley, said that two people were on board the helicopter and that a search for survivors is underway. He says the debris from the wreckage is stinging water.
Albert says the police of natural resources on patrol boat in the area was called to the crash site of the east coast around 12:30.
Wheatley says the helicopter came from Tipton Airport and Fort Meade. It was a non-military helicopter. The Maryland NRP has been in contact with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Several emergency units intervene, including the Maryland State Police and the Coast Guard, as well as the Queen Anne, Talbot, Anne Arundel and Annapolis fire departments.
Trevor Hardman fished rockfish with his 15-year-old son and his friend when he heard another boater report the VHF marine radio crash. When he arrived at the site about one kilometer away, "there was only debris everywhere and jet fuel," said Hardman, a firefighter from Prince George County, Baltimore Sun.
Hardman said he has released a bag containing a flight log and a maintenance record for the Cabri G2 helicopter, manufactured by the French company Guimbal. He stated that he handed over the documents to the US Coast Guard.
Stay with WBOC while we collect more information about this incident.
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