Three Fatally Injured When The Piper Navajo Impacted Terrain
The NTSB has released a preliminary report from an accident which occurred November 29 about 15 miles west of Cooper Landing, Alaska. The aircraft, a Piper Navajo operating as an air ambulance, was destroyed by impact and postcrash fire when it collided with mountainous terrain. The three occupants; the airline transport pilot, a flight nurse, and the flight paramedic were fatally injured.