NTSB SENDING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES HELICOPTER ACCIDENT IN TENNESSEE

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:
http://www.ntsb.gov/Recs/mostwanted/aviation_improvesafety_e
ms_flights.html

Peter Knudson will be the press officer on-scene. Mr.
Knudson may be reached on his cell phone (202-557-1350) when
he arrives in Tennessee this afternoon.

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