Thu, Mar 25, 2010
No Patients Were On Board At The Time Of The Accident
ANN Realtime Update 1400 EDT
03.25.2010: The National Transportation Safety Board is
sending a team to investigate the crash of an emergency medical
services (EMS) helicopter this morning in Brownsville, Tennessee,
about 55 miles northeast of Memphis. Three crewmembers were killed
in the accident; there was no patient onboard at the time of the
crash.
NTSB Air Safety Investigator Ralph Hicks has been designated as
Investigator-in-Charge and is traveling to the scene from the
Safety Board's regional office in Atlanta. NTSB Chairman Deborah
A.P. Hersman will serve as principal spokesman during the on-scene
investigation.
Improving the Safety of (EMS) flight operations has been on the
NTSB's Most Wanted List of Safety Improvements since 2008.
Original Story: A medical helicopter has gone
down in a rural area of Tennessee, resulting in the loss of all
three crewmembers reportedly on board at the time of the
accident.
The accident happened at about 0600 CDT Thursday. Multiple media
sources including The Associated Press report that the helicopter
had just dropped off a patient at Jackson-Madison County General
Hospital in Jackson, TN, and was returning to its home base in
Brownsville when it went down during what was described as a
"severe" rainstorm just a few miles from its destination.
The helicopter belonged to Hosptial Wing, a non-profit medical
transportation company based in Brownsville. The Jackson Sun
Newspaper reports that a dispatcher who was in contact with the
aircraft lost contact about 0600. The dispatchers used a GPS
tracking device on board the helo to locate the crash site.
The helicopter went down a wheat field about four miles east of
Brownsville, which is northeast of Memphis.
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