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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore and agencies

Authorities identify the two victims of New Jersey helicopter crash: ‘They were always together’

emergency vehicles on the scene of a helicopter crash site
Authorities and investigators work the scene where police are securing wreckage following an inflight collision involving two helicopters in Hammonton, New Jersey, on 28 December 2025. Photograph: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images

Two men who died after their helicopters collided midair in New Jersey over the weekend both earned their private pilot licenses over a decade ago and would often have breakfast together at a cafe near the crash site before taking to the skies from the local airport.

Authorities on Monday identified the two New Jersey men as Kenneth Kirsch, 65, and Michael Greenberg, 71. Witnesses told police that the two helicopters they were piloting Sunday were flying close together just before they crashed in a farm field near the airport in Hammonton, about 35 miles (56km) south-east of Philadelphia.

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