{"id":109178,"date":"2025-03-11T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/medical-transport-helicopter-crash-leaves-crew-members-pilot-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:04:12","slug":"medical-transport-helicopter-crash-leaves-crew-members-pilot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/medical-transport-helicopter-crash-leaves-crew-members-pilot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical transport helicopter crash leaves crew members, pilot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-11\/Untitled%20design%20%2891%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(MADISON, MS) &#8212; Three people died after a medical transport helicopter crashed in Madison County, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, according to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was a Eurocopter EC-135 helicopter, which crashed into a wooded area around 1:15 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was owned and operated by Med-Trans, UMMC said.<\/p>\n<p>UMMC confirmed that no patients were on board, and that the victims were two crew members and a pilot. Their families were being contacted, the medical center said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier this afternoon, AirCare 3, our Columbus-based medical transport helicopter, had an accident in rural Madison County, north of the Reservoir,&#8221; UMMC said in a statement on Facebook. &#8220;Sadly, there were no survivors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAA was investigating in the immediate aftermath of the crash, and the National Transportation Safety Board said it was &#8220;launching a go-team to investigate&#8221; starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves released a statement on X saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a tragic reminder of the risks Mississippi&#8217;s first responders take every day to keep us safe. Our state will never forget the sacrifice of these heroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Benjamin Stein and T. Michelle Murphy contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images (MADISON, MS) &#8212; Three people died after a medical transport helicopter crashed in Madison County, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, according to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The aircraft was a Eurocopter EC-135 helicopter, which crashed into a wooded area around 1:15 p.m. local time, the Federal<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/medical-transport-helicopter-crash-leaves-crew-members-pilot-dead\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}