Low-flying helicopter at VT conducting routine inspection

By Ashley Roberts
WSLS10 Reporter
Published: May 28, 2008

An update to a story we first brought you last week from Virginia Tech where a helicopter swooped down on a horse pasture; hurting one of the animals.

Some students were in the field off of Price’s Fork Road last Thursday caring for the horses when they spotted the low flying helicopter.

They say all the horses scattered throughout the field, except one.

The horse ran into a fence post, which caused a lot of cuts and bruises.

A university spokesman tells us the pilot was with A-E-P and was conducting a routine examination of the power lines.

We’re told it was an accident and that no charges will be placed.