A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pilot was killed in a helicopter crash on Monday near the U.S.–Mexico border in San Diego County, according to the CBP.
The Federal Aviation Administration told NTD in an emailed statement that a Eurocopter AS350-B3 helicopter crashed near Potrero, east of San Diego, just after 10 a.m. on Dec. 16, killing the pilot.
The helicopter was a U.S. CBP Air and Marine Operations aircraft on a border security mission when the aviation mishap took place, according to an emailed statement to NTD, the sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, from a CBP spokesperson….