A portion of southbound Highway 101 in Salinas has been shut down this morning while emergency crews work to clear the wreckage of a helicopter crash. Police say the ag helicopter went down at 6:10 a.m., a mile south of Airport Boulevard, impacting highway 101 southbound traffic only. Police have shut the road down in that area and are now diverting traffic onto side streets, while officers work to clean-up fuel and water that was spilled in the crash. The helicopter pilot has been taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
