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更新于：2026年8月19日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:38 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
当局表示，周三晚间在宾夕法尼亚州中部发生一起小型飞机与州警直升机空中相撞事故，造成一人死亡，两名宾夕法尼亚州州警受伤。
美国联邦航空管理局称，涉事飞机为一架塞斯纳150型飞机和一架贝尔407型直升机。
宾夕法尼亚州代理州警专员、中校乔治·比文斯周三晚间在新闻发布会上表示，塞斯纳飞机的飞行员被认为是机上唯一乘员，在坎伯兰县卡莱尔机场发生的相撞事故中遇难。
宾夕法尼亚州州长乔希·夏皮罗在通报会上表示，这架直升机上的两名飞行员均为州警精英航空部队成员，两人受伤但预计可以生还。
比文斯称，这架以哈里斯堡为基地的直升机当时正在卡莱尔机场进行日常训练，事故发生在美国东部时间晚上7点前不久。
当局在宾夕法尼亚州卡莱尔的卡莱尔机场调查州警直升机与小型飞机的相撞事故。2026年8月19日。肖恩·西姆斯/《爱国者新闻》 via 美联社
比文斯告诉记者，当时直升机在一片草地区域离地面数英尺处悬停，一架小型塞斯纳飞机“从后方接近”，并对准了该草地附近的一条跑道。
“当这架塞斯纳飞机沿着跑道下降时，不知何故在最后一刻突然向右急转，”比文斯说。“它从后方撞上了直升机。直升机飞行员根本不可能看到那架飞机向他们靠近。”
比文斯将此次撞机描述为“剧烈碰撞”，称直升机“倒扣在地，侧翻坠毁，部分机身压在机顶上”。
塞斯纳飞机的飞行员当场死亡。两名直升机飞行员最初被困在机内，但其中一名飞行员设法推开窗户，将两人都救了出来，比文斯透露。
两人被送往宾州州立大学赫尔希医疗中心。该院创伤主任阿什利·路德维希博士在通报会上表示，两名飞行员均受轻伤，情况稳定。
遇难的塞斯纳飞行员身份尚未立即公布。
比文斯表示，联邦航空管理局人员已在现场，国家运输安全委员会的调查人员将于夜间抵达。联邦航空管理局称，国家运输安全委员会将主导调查，联邦航空管理局将提供协助。
“目前已有一些视频和照片，将用于还原事故经过，”比文斯说。
国家运输安全委员会指出，在完成残骸取证后，将“把残骸转移至安全设施进行进一步检查”。
“今晚本可能情况更糟，本可能给我们州警大家庭带来更大的悲剧，谢天谢地没有发生，”夏皮罗说。
卡莱尔位于费城以西约120英里处。
One killed when small plane, state police helicopter collide in midair over Pennsylvania, officials say
2026-08-19T21:16:00-0400 / CBS News
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Faris Tanyos News Editor
Updated on: August 19, 2026 / 11:38 PM EDT / CBS News
One person was killed and two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured when a small plane and a state police helicopter were involved in a midair collision in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, authorities said.
The collision involved a Cessna 150 and a Bell 407 chopper, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Acting Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Lt. Col. George Bivens said in a news conference Wednesday night the pilot of the Cessna, who was believed to be its only occupant, was killed in the collision, which occurred at Carlisle Airport in Cumberland County.
The two pilots aboard the chopper, who were members of the state police’s elite aviation unit, were injured but are expected to survive, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at the briefing.
The helicopter, based out of Harrisburg, was conducting routine training exercises at Carlisle Airport when the crash occurred just before 7 p.m. ET, Bivens said.
Authorities investigate a crash between a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter and a small plane at the Carlisle Airport in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Aug. 19, 2026. Sean Simmers/The Patriot-News via AP
The helicopter was hovering several feet off the ground in a grass area when a small Cessna “approached from behind” and lined up with one of the runways near that grass area, Bivens told reporters.
“As that Cessna came down along that runway, for an unknown reason, it veered hard to the right at the last moment,” Bivens said. “It struck the helicopter from the rear. The pilots would not have been able to even see that airplane approaching them.”
Bivens described the crash as “violent,” saying the helicopter “rolled inverted and crashed into the ground on its side and partially onto its roof.”
The Cessna pilot died at the scene. Both helicopter pilots were initially trapped, but one of them was able to push out a window and get both of them out, Bivens disclosed.
They were taken to Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Ashley Ludwig, trauma director at the hospital, said in the briefing that both pilots sustained minor injuries and were stable.
The name of the deceased Cessna pilot was not immediately released.
FAA officials were on scene, and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were arriving overnight, Bivens said. The FAA said that the NTSB would lead the investigation, with the FAA assisting.
“There is some video and photographs that are available that will be used to reconstruct what occurred,” Bivens said.
The NTSB noted that after the wreckage was documented, it would “be moved to a secure facility for further examination.”
“Tonight could have been much worse, tonight could have been much more tragic for our state police family, thank God that it wasn’t,” Shapiro said.
Carlisle is located about 120 miles west of Philadelphia.
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