Two people are dead after a Hughes 369D helicopter crashed on a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois.

EAST ALTON, Ill. -- Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois ...

Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis ...

A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two ...

Smoke could be seen rising from a barge on the Mississippi River following a helicopter crash - the aircraft is said to have ...

First responders say the helicopter had people on board who were trying to do work on nearby power lines before hitting one ...

A helicopter struck a power line over the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge, killing two people and sparking a fire.

A massive helicopter crash in the Mississippi River near Alton has sparked emergency response from Missouri and Illinois ...

Two people working on powerlines near the Mississippi River died Thursday when their helicopter hit the lines, crashed into a ...

The helicopter, all of a sudden, touched the power line and in two seconds, it wasn’t a helicopter anymore, it was a thousand ...