Three of Four Victims Named in Fatal Airplane Crash
Yesterday, REACH Air Medical Services and Cal-Ore Life Flight named their three employees who died in a tragic plane crash early Friday morning. The medical flight carrying a patient from Crescent City to Oakland crashed after the pilot reported seeing smoke in the cockpit of the twin-engine plane. He declared an emergency and attempted to return to Crescent City but instead crashed near Crannell.
REACH has declined to name the patient for privacy issues but states that the pilot was Larry Mills, the Flight Nurse was Deborah Kroon, and Flight Paramedic was Michelle Tarwater. We do know the patient was a woman from the Klamath area.
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Very tragic. I offer my condolences to the families and friends of the four who lost their lives.
Tragic. My Prayers and respect to the families.
How unutterably sad
those who perished are heros.
thank you all for your dedication & courage
Why would the pilot try to fly back to Cresent city ,and the plane crashed near cranell .wouldnt it be closer to land in Arcata. If I’m reading the article right just saying .
Probably because the fog was so bad that night at ACV.
Weather conditions.
My condolences to the families of those who perished.
If it’s foggy in arcata the closest airport to land at night would probably be cc if they just took off from there my guess would be it was clear there still, not a lot of options at night even when it’s clear
Your reading it right we have all asked the same question here in CC.
So sorry how tragic. Prayers to the families.
Prayers going up to all the familys
So sad on top of other sad things this year. It makes one wonder why anyone should have to, or will be able to go thru things like this.
There will a lot of huge scars before it is over. Love to their families, wish I could do more.