VENICE, Fla. (AP) - Sarasota County Sheriff's deputies say a student pilot and teacher were injured when a helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from Venice Municipal Airport.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Wendy Rose said the crash happened Tuesday evening.
The Herald Tribune (http://bit.ly/1XGTitN ) reports a sheriff's office helicopter crew located the downed aircraft shortly after it crashed.
Officials say a woman with injures to her face and head was flown to a hospital in Sarasota. An ambulance took a man to a Venice hospital. Deputies say he was walking and talking after the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been notified of the crash.
Wednesday, authorities identified the flight instructor as 38-year-old Ronald Vasconcelos, and the student pilot was 31-year-old Agnus Jolumo.
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