A helicopter being used to film a test run of an experimental car on Pikes Peak crashed today near the mountain's summit, injuring the helicopter pilot and the film crew.


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Steve Sperry, spokesman for El Paso County Search and Rescue, said the helicopter crashed about 7:30 a.m. at an elevation of 13,800 feet near Mile Marker 19. Sperry said the crash occurred where the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad and the Pikes Peak highway are within yards of each other. Terri Reishus, a spokeswoman for Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, said that the pilot, Jim Dirker, and the three other occupants of the plane were released from the hospital this afternoon. The helicopter is a Eurocopter AS355F1 built in 1982 by the French aerospace firm Aerospatiale, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The helicopter is registered to JBD Enterprises in Eugene, Ore. Mike Fergus, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that both the FAA and NTSB will investigate the incident. Jeremiah Gallagher, a Pikes Peak ranger, said those aboard the helicopter were members of a film crew that were going to film an Audi car test - a joint project of Audi, Stanford University and the Electronic Research Laboratory in Palo Alto. Earlier this week, Stanford University said that an Audi coupe, known as Shelley, was being tested on the mountain.

Source: 4 hurt when helicopter crashes near top of Pikes Peak while filming Audi event

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