Re: WCVB Helicopter crash in Hudson NH on october 18 1983

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

Rex Trailer owned the WEEI copter that crashed in Quincy. Chip Whitmore 
also worked fulltime at WJIB


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 3:17AM -0500, Bob Nelson wrote:
>
> --- John Bolduc <n1qgs@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>  Also, did a WEEI traffic copter go down in the early
>>  1970's resulting in
>>  death??
>
> I remember a WEEI copter crash back around then;
> somehow the names Bank and Whittemore (?)
> come to mind (they may have been the pilot and
> reporter). I want to say it crashed into an apartment
> house in Quincy; and also I think Rex Trailer, who
> did traffic reports on occasion, nearly wound up
> being on that copter but wound up missing the
> fatal flight. I could be all wrong on all that
> but I do remember seeing coverage of the crash
> on TV (I would have been about 11 or 12 at the
> time).