A pilot died when his helicopter crashed on Saturday in Pittsylvania County. Police say 71-year-old Paul D. Jackson from Chase City had dropped of some people at a convenience store on Mt. Cross Road and the took off again, crashing about 500 yards from the store in the back yard of a residence in the 2000 block of Campview Road in the Whitmell School area. The Virginia State Police got the call at 3:03 p.m. after witnesses reported the craft was running rough went into a cloud of dense fog and crashed.
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