Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the crash of a medical transport plane that killed all five people aboard, including a patient, in northern Nevada. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to investigate Friday night s crash near Stagecoach. The crash occurred amid a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service for large parts of Nevada. Forecasters said it was snowing steadily and visibility was under two miles when the plane left Reno for Salt Lake City, Utah, and crashed in a mountainous area. Two residents of Stagecoach said they heard the single-engine plane just before the crash.
Authorities say a medical transport flight that crashed in northern Nevada, killing all five people aboard including a patient, apparently broke apart before hitting the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a seven-member team of investigators to the site of Friday night’s crash near Stagecoach, seeking the cause of the crash. NTSB Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg said at a news briefing Sunday that parts of the plane were found up to three-quarters of a mile away from the crash scene in a mountainous area. Landsberg says a team spent all day looking for pieces of the downed plane, a single-engine Pilatus PC-12.
Authorities say a medical transport flight that crashed in northern Nevada, killing all five people aboard including a patient, apparently broke apart before hitting the ground.
STAGECOACH, Nev. (AP) A medical transport flight that crashed in a mountainous area in northern Nevada, killing five all five people aboard the plane including a patient, apparently broke apart before hitting the ground, authorities said Sunday.