September 29, 2014
The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a medical helicopter crashed in southeastern Kentucky last year killing three people probably because the pilot became disoriented in patchy fog. The board’s probable cause report this week said it could not …
April 11, 2014
Investigators are trying to determine what caused a medical helicopter to crash while taking off from the roof of New Mexico’s only top-level trauma center. Officials said all three people aboard escaped serious injury. The male pilot was reported in …
August 11, 2013
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court by the family of an Iowa nurse who died with two others when a medical helicopter crashed earlier this year. Shelly Lair-Langenbau’s family sued the air transport company that owned …
July 1, 2013
Medical helicopter flights from a southeastern Oklahoma hospital have resumed after this month’s deadly crash. Officials with Wichita, Kan.-based EagleMed said a Eurocopter AS350 arrived at the McAlester Regional Health Center earlier this week to replace an identical helicopter that …