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In response to a query Wednesday, the FAA said in an email it has no record of accidents or incidents for the Highway Patrol helicopter that crashed and no record of accidents, incidents or enforcement actions for Russell.

The helicopter went down on the slopes of Aetna Mountain, the FAA said. CDT Tuesday when the Bell 206 helicopter owned by the Tennessee Department of Safety "crashed under unknown circumstances on a mountainside" after hitting a high tension power line, in Whiteside, Tennessee, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter crash in Marion Countyīlansett and Russell were killed around 4 p.m. Lee Russell when the helicopter crashed off Interstate 24. Blansett was the passenger flying with state trooper pilot Sgt. Lamb said all the detective's family had been notified. Officials in the area of the crash were tight-lipped Wednesday, none of them offering comment as they returned and left again from the tiny Whiteside Church of God on State Route 134 where recovery teams met and planned throughout the day.Įarly Wednesday, Steve Lamb, Marion County emergency management agency director, confirmed the Marion County officer's identity as Sheriff's Office Detective Matt Blansett. The scene is on the slopes of Aetna Mountain near the Georgia border. A team of local and state officials spent most of Wednesday working at the scene where a crash involving a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter claimed the lives of the trooper pilot and a Marion County Sheriff's Office detective Tuesday afternoon.