Two people are dead after a Hughes 369D helicopter crashed on 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 ...

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

Emergency officials were responding to a helicopter crash in a section of the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois.

Two workers died when their helicopter struck power lines and crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, ...

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

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

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

Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.

Two people were killed Thursday after the helicopter they were in struck power lines crossing the Mississippi River and ...

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 ...