A New Hampshire couple injured in a Kaua'i helicopter crash last year that killed one person have reached a "nearly eight-figure" settlement with the aircraft 's manufacturers.

Details of the settlement will be announced tomorrow by the couple's attorney, Richard Fried Jr.

The March 11, 2007, crash of the Inter-Island Helicopters' Hughes 500 killed Michael Gershon, 60, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and injured the Newport, N.H., couple and another passenger, Dania Hansen of Los Altos, Calif.

The helicopter had been previously used by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department in California, according to FAA records.

At the crash scene, the entire tail-rotor section was missing.