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Five folks on board a medical services airplane died Friday evening after the plane crashed in western Nevada, officials stated.
The pilot, the flight’s nurse and paramedic together with a affected person and a affected person’s member of the family had been killed when the airplane crashed close to Stagecoach, Nevada, according to Care Flight, a service supplied by REMSA Health.
“We are heartbroken to report that we have now received confirmation from Central Lyon County Fire Department that none of the five people on board survived,” the group stated in a press release on Facebook. “We are in the process of notifying their family members.”
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department and the Central Lyon Fire Department are coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board to find out the reason for the crash, in keeping with Care Flight.
Authorities in Lyon County – which encompasses Stagecoach – obtained a number of calls of a attainable plane crash round 9:15 p.m Friday. First responders from Lyon and Douglas counties responded and situated the airplane at round 11:15 p.m.
The crash is underneath investigation by the county’s sheriff’s division.
REMSA Health is at the moment in what it referred to as a “passive stand down” for all flights throughout the corporate, including that it intends to work with worldwide operations to find out when services might return.
Stagecoach is about 25 miles southeast of Reno.