CT Brothers Killed In Las Vegas Helicopter Crash

LAS VEGAS — A second Connecticut resident has now died after a helicopter crash in Las Vegas last week. The two victims are half-brothers, according to media reports.

Last week, authorities said the pilot, Scott Socquet, 53, of Milford, was killed in the crash and now WFSB 3 TV reported Tuesday morning that Howard Jameson, 27, of New Fairfield, also died in the Oct. 23 crash near the Red Rock Canyon Visitors Center.

Jameson and Socquet were transported to University Medical Center and later died due to life-threatening injuries sustained in the wreck, according to The New Haven Register.

The helicopter is a Robinson R-44 and the Federal Aviation Administration said that Socquet crashed the craft under unknown circumstances near SR 159. The aircraft is registered to Binner Enterprises LLC in Henderson, Nevada.

Jameson and Socquet were part of a family with the Great Race organization, which participates in rallies around the country in antique cars, according to a statement from the organization.

“The Jameson and Socquet families are still kind of new to the Great Race, but they quickly became fixtures on the event because they have so much fun on the race and are so friendly,” Great Race Director Jeff Stumb said in a statement. “And Linda (Socquet and Jameson's mother) has become a huge supporter of the X-Cup scholarship program. I just hurt for...the entire family.”

Socquet was a professional pilot who took frequent cross-country trips and was out for a one-hour leisure trip when the accident occurred, according to the statement.

Howard and Scott's brother Neil told Fox 5 Las Vegas that "They would want us to celebrate them, not cry and just carry on. That’s how they were. They would be pranking each other in the hospital now. That’s just how they were.”

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