Fatal New Year’s Eve plane crash in Shenandoah Valley, Va.

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New Year’s Eve turned tragic Friday afternoon when a medical helicopter and a single-engine airplane collided in mid-air around 2:30, causing the plane to spiral out of control and crash into the ground in northern Augusta County.

Two people in the 1967 single-engine Cessna 172L were killed and their bodies were recovered from the wreckage in a farm field a half-mile from the Weyers Cave Airport, located in the central Shenandoah Valley just off I-81 halfway between Harrisonburg and Staunton, Va.

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