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LOS ANGELES — A tour helicopter crashed in rainy weather on an island off the Southern California coast Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others, a county sheriff’s deputy said.
The helicopter went down on the west end of Santa Catalina Island near Two Harbors, causing a small fire that was quickly doused, authorities said. Helicopters airlifted two women and a man to mainland hospitals.
Two of the injured were in critical condition, said a Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman. The crash killed two men and one woman immediately, said fire officials. The Eurocopter AS 350 chopper was a private tour aircraft from Island Express.
