Crash Kills 2 TV Newsmen, Pilot
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ELLENDALE, Minn. — A helicopter carrying an ABC television correspondent and a producer to cover a meatpackers strike at Geo. A. Hormel & Co.’s Austin plant crashed today in thick fog, killing the ABC employees and the pilot, authorities said.
The ABC employees were identified as correspondent Joe Spencer and producer Mark McDonough, both 31 and based in Chicago, an ABC spokesman in New York said. The Odyssey Helicopter Service in St. Paul, which leased the helicopter, withheld the pilot’s name.
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