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By NBC News
A fiery helicopter crash in eastern Tennessee killed a local woman, her grown son and daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend, in addition to the pilot, authorities and relatives said Tuesday.
All five people aboard the helicopter, a single-engine Bell 206L tour craft manufactured in March 1977, were killed when it slammed into the ground at 3:30 p.m. ET Monday in Sevier County just north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Pigeon Forge police identified the victims Tuesday night as the pilot, Jason Dahl, 38, of nearby Sevierville; Johna Morvant, 49, of Kodak, about 10 miles north; her daughter, Peyton Rasmussen, 22, and son, Parker Rasmussen, 18…
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