What: Hospital Wing Eurocopter AS.350B3 Ecureuil helicopter en route from Jackson-Madison County General Hospital to Brownsville
Where: 100 yards off Springfield School Road, about four miles east of downtown Brownsville Tennessee
When: MARCH 25, 2010
Who: 3 on board (no patients)
Why: Dispatchers lost contact with the helicopter crew before 6 a.m. A lightning strike and a fireball was seen near the field where the wreckage was found, a location that was found by GPS.
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