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,

A helicopter that crashed into a Houston radio tower, killing all four people aboard and starting a fire below, was on an air tour flight at the time, authorities said.