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Medical Helicopter Crashes After Delivering Patients


PICTURED: a Eurocopter AS350B2
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Contact photographer Michal Nowicki

What: OmniFlight American Eurocopter AS350B2 medical helicopter en route from Charleston to Conway
Where: 63 miles southwest of Conway, S.C
When: 2308 PM, ET on Friday, September 25, 2009
Who: 3 person crew:p ilot, flight nurse and paramedic
Why: The helicopter had dropped off a patient at about 9:35 p.m. Friday in Charleston. Thunderstorms were in the area at the time of the crash. The weather was described as “convective.”

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