Four people were killed, including a child, when a helicopter slammed into a radio tower behind homes in Houston’s Second Ward, causing a fiery explosion and toppling the structure and scattering debris through the neighborhood,

Four people aboard a helicopter were killed when it crashed into a radio tower in Houston and burst into flames, officials said. The helicopter went down just before 8 p.m. Sunday in a neighborhood east of downtown after taking off from Ellington Field,

Officials surveying the aftermath of a deadly helicopter crash in Houston on Sunday are looking into the possibility that the aircraft struck a radio tower because its warning lights were not working.