Monitoring Desk
CARSON CITY: Five people on board a medical services airplane died on Friday night after the aircraft crashed in western Nevada, local officials said.
The pilot, the paramedic, and the flight’s nurse, along with a patient and a family member of the patient, were killed when the aircraft crashed near Stagecoach region in Nevada, according to Care Flight.
“We are sad to report that the Central Lyon County Fire Department has just confirmed that none of the five persons on board survived,” the health organization said in a statement on Facebook. “We are in the process to notify their family members.”
Investigation in Nevada place crash
The Central Lyon Fire Department and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department are coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board to establish the cause of the crash, according to Care Flight.
Authorities in Lyon County received multiple calls of a possible airplane crash around 9:15 p.m. on Friday. First responders from Douglas and Lyon counties responded and located the airplane around 11:15 p.m.
The county’s sheriff’s department is investigating the plane crash.
REMSA Health is currently in a “passive stand down” for all flights across the company. The organization said that it intends to work with internal operations to establish when services may resume.
Stagecoach is around 25 miles southeast of Reno.
