Paul Sokoloski, an emergency physician with Pennsylvania State Health Department, has been identified as the pilot of the small plane that collided with a Penn State Police helicopter at Carlisle airport in Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening. Sokoloski, 57, has was killed in the collision, the Cumberland County coroner confirmed to CBS 21 . Dr.
Two others were injured in the accident. grief has hit the family of Dr While the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigates Wednesday evening’s crash. Paul Sokoloski and the broader Penn State Health community. Sokolosski was from Hershey, Pennsylvania. He was the only pilot aboard the Cessna when it collided with the police chopper. The chopper, meanwhile, had two people on board. “I just left Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where PA State Police Lt.
Police said that the crash happened around 6:52pm EDT at the Carlisle Regional Airport. State Police Acting Commissioner Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said that the police chopper was engaged in a routine training exercise when it was struck from behind by the Cessna 150. The Cessna 150 was registered to his home address, CNN reported. Colonel Bivens and I spent time with State Police Corporal Pilot Bryce Corman, Trooper Pilot Jason Mills, and their families following a fatal aircraft collision in Carlisle involving a PSP helicopter and a Cessna 150,” Shapiro said in a follow-up.
He added that helicopter was “several feet off the ground” when it was hit. “The pilots would not have been able to even see that airplane approaching them,” Bivens added. “Lori and I join Pennsylvanians tonight in praying for the family of the Cessna 150 pilot who was killed, as well as Corporal Corman, Trooper Mills, and their loved ones as they begin to recover.”
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Shapiro had said that he had been briefed on the crash and he was on his way to the site. Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, reacted to the crash in social media late on Wednesday evening.
