Lawsuit Alleges Negligence in Deadly Ohio Medical Helicopter Crash January 28, 2021
A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against an air ambulance company over a medical helicopter crash in snowy weather that killed the three central Ohioans on board.
The suit alleges Survival Flight and operator Viking Aviation inappropriately and recklessly accepted a flight request from an emergency care facility in Pomeroy in January 2019 despite deteriorating weather conditions.
The case was filed this week in Franklin County by the estate of Rachel Cunningham, a 33-year-old flight nurse from Galloway. Pilot Jennifer Topper, 34, of Sunbury, and another medical crew member, 48-year-old Bradley Haynes, of London, also died.
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A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a nurse killed in 2019 when a medical helicopter crashed during snowy weather in Vinton County.
The family of Rachel Cunningham alleges Survival Flight accepted the assignment without considering the risks. Cunningham, fellow flight nurse Bradley Hayes, and pilot Jennifer Topper were killed while attempting to transport a patient to Mount Carmel s hospital in Grove City. Holzer Health System is also named in the suit for allegedly failing to notify Survival Flight that other companies rejected the assignment. Neither defendant has commented.
Wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Galloway nurse killed in medical helicopter crash
Pilot Jennifer Topper and flight nurses Bradley Haynes and Rachel Cunningham were killed in the crash on January 29, 2019.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Galloway nurse, Rachel Cunningham, who was among three killed in a 2019 medical helicopter crash in Vinton County.
Cunningham, pilot Jennifer Topper and flight nurse Bradley Haynes were killed in the crash on January 29, 2019.
The Survival Flight helicopter was traveling from Mount Carmel Grove City hospital to Holzer Meigs hospital in Pomeroy for a patient transfer back to Columbus.
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