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Three members of an air ambulance crew were killed when their helicopter crashed in Oklahoma. The crash of the Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter took place at around 11.30pm on Saturday night near ...
Three members of an air ambulance crew were killed when their helicopter crashed late Saturday in Oklahoma, officials said. The crash was reported near Weatherford after the control center lost ...
Several pieces of the Bell 206 helicopter's propulsion system were found scattered around the crash site, including the transmission, main rotor hub and blades. The safety board said one of the ...
Crewmen fighting a fire after the crash of a Sea Stallion helicopter on USS Guam in 1981. 19 July Aboard USS Guam, while operating 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Morehead City, North Carolina, United States, a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashed into another CH-53 and a Bell UH-1N Twin Huey upon landing. Four crewmen died and 10 were ...
An air ambulance helicopter operated by Mercy Air Service, a private emergency medical services aviation company in the U.S.. The safety of emergency medical services flights has become a topic of public interest in the United States, with the expansion of emergency medical services aviation operations, such as air ambulance and MEDEVAC, and the increasing frequency of related accidents.
4 January – A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crashed into a marshy area near Bayou Penchant, Louisiana. The helicopter operated by Petroleum Helicopters was flying oil workers to a Shell Petroleum Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico from Gibson, Louisiana resulting in 8 fatalities and 1 passenger rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter. [42]
Investigators said that the helicopter that crashed was manufactured in 1990 and received its last inspection in September, adding that the aircraft had more than 12,000 total flight hours.
Was the first successful air ambulance in the country, is non-profit. Serves mainly Southern Oregon and Northern California; 150-mile (240 km) radius for helicopter, and almost anywhere West of the Rocky Mountains for the fixed wing airplane, within 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of Medford.