1991 Merion mid-air collision

When

4 Apr 1991

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

40.00° N, 75.26° W

Description

1991 mid-air collision

Deaths

7

1991 mid-air collision

On April 4, 1991, a Piper Aerostar propeller-driven aircraft collided in mid-air with a Bell 412 helicopter over Merion Elementary School in Lower Merion Township, a suburb west of Philadelphia, in southeast Pennsylvania. All five people in both aircraft were killed, including United States Senator John Heinz, the sole passenger of the Piper.

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