Crews pull wreckage of helicopter that crashed, killing pilot and injuring passengers, from Biscayne Bay

Salvage crews on Friday morning removed a mangled helicopter from Biscayne Bay following a crash off Key Biscayne earlier this week.The lightweight aircraft, owned by TourHelicopter.com, crashed late Wednesday morning approximately 2 miles west of Key Biscayne off Nixon Beach near Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. Authorities said the helicopter had departed North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines to conduct a photo shoot of the Poker Run speedboat event.Pilot Tomas Pendas, 63, was killed, and passengers Ryan McCoy, 52, and Ryan Ferraro, 27, were injured in the crash.Sea Tow Key Biscayne crews carefully towed the aircraft across the bay to Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables to preserve evidence for federal investigators."This is not the first time we have done this with an aircraft or a boat after they had an accident, and we are trying not to damage it because they want to do the investigation," said Eduardo Barreto, owner and president of Sea Tow Key Biscayne.Barreto said the heli