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Medical Helicopter Crash outside of Chicago

What: Rockford Memorial Hospital MBB BK 117 A-3 en route from Rockford to Mendota
Where: Rochelle, Illinois
When: Dec 10, 2012 8:30 p.m.
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: A Rockford Memorial Hospital’s REACT helicopter crashed in a field at about 8:30 p.m. in Rochelle midway between Rockford and Mendota. Pilot Andy Olson, flight nurse Jim Dillow, R.N. and flight nurse Karen Hollis, R.N. died on the scene.

The medical helicopter was en route to Mendota to pick up a patient. No patients were aboard at the time of the accident.

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