Helicopter Crash In New Mexico Kills 5 Aboard

A helicopter crashed in a mountainous rural area of northern New Mexico, killing five people, three of them from Colorado, and seriously injuring the sixth person aboard, a New Mexico State Police spokeswoman said Thursday. Authorities said key Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett of Colorado and South Africa was killed in the crash. Details of why the 60-year-old Bennett was in the area weren’t immediately available. Also killed were pilot Jamie Coleman Dodd, 57, of Trinidad; Eileen Bennett, 55, of Colorado; co-pilot Paul Cobb, 67, of Conroe, Texas; and Charles Ryland Burnett, 61, of Houston.