COTULLA, Texas -- A helicopter crash during a hunting trip on a ranch in south Texas left the pilot and a passenger dead.
The Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday identified the victims as the 40-year-old pilot, Brian Keith Faglie of Uvalde, and 52-year-old Dale Allen Jones of Houston. DPS says both were pronounced dead by a La Salle County justice of the peace.
The cause of Saturday s crash of a Robinson R22 is sought. The accident happened at a ranch about 13 miles north of Cotulla, in the Dilley area. The small helicopter went down in a field.
Investigator Tim LeBaron with the National Transportation Safety Board says Faglie was the pilot during the hog hunting trip. LeBaron says the weather was not bad at the time of the crash late Saturday morning.
