MARCH 23, 2015
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
The identities of three people killed Sunday in a College
Park helicopter crash have been released.
Pilot Bruce Teitelbaum, his wife Marsha Khan and passenger
Harry Anderson died in the crash, officials with the city of Orlando said
Monday morning.
The helicopter crashed into the guest house of a home on
Alameda Street.
"It was not the explosion you would've expected of a
crash of a helicopter or an airplane," said neighbor Donn Carr.
The pilot had requested to head back to the airport, saying,
"Helicopter 242 exec, requesting a return back to HQ. Helicopter 242
proceed back in bound on the downtown arrival."
Moments later, the Robinson R-44 helicopter came crashing
down into a neighbor's home.
"The impact was a very solid, 'Boom!' and then dead
silent," said Carr.
Officials said the helicopter took off from Orlando
Executive Airport, but have not reported who was flying or where it was going.
Police said it is too early to tell what may have caused the
crash.
"It just came right over our house, very, very low. I
was in the office, my wife was in the back," Carr said.
A neighbor told Channel 9 the helicopter's rotor landed in
the backyard of another home and knocked down part of a fence. Some residents
lost power after the crash.
"I said, 'OK, we've got a really bad problem on our
hands,'" said Carr.
Investigators said no one was in the guest house behind the
home at the time of the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National
Transportation Safety Administration are investigating the accident.