NTSB Sending Team to Investigate Emergency Medical Services Helicopter Accident in Tennessee
Three crewmembers were killed in the accident; there was no patient onboard at the time of the crash.
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.
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