Medical Helicopter Falls Off Hospital Roof
From Times Wire Reports
A medical helicopter lost power while taking off and fell 30 feet off the roof of a hospital in Olympia, the second crash for the same company in a month.
None of the four people aboard the Airlift Northwest aircraft was seriously injured in the crash at Providence-St. Peter Hospital, authorities said. The company’s previous crash, Sept. 29 in Puget Sound, killed all three crew members.
The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the latest incident.
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