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NTSB ADVISORY ************************************************************ National
Transportation Safety Board Washington,
DC 20594 March
25, 2010 ************************************************************ NTSB
SENDING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES HELICOPTER
ACCIDENT IN TENNESEE ************************************************************ The
National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to
investigate the crash of an emergency medical services (EMS)
helicopter this morning in Brownsville, Tennessee, about
55 miles northeast of Memphis. Three crewmembers were killed
in the accident; there was no patient onboard at the time
of the crash. NTSB
Air Safety Investigator Ralph Hicks has been designated as
Investigator-in-Charge and is traveling to the scene from the
Safety Board's regional office in Atlanta. NTSB Chairman Deborah
A.P. Hersman will serve as principal spokesman during
the on-scene investigation. Improving
the Safety of (EMS) flight operations has been on the
NTSB's Most Wanted List of Safety Improvements since 2008:
http://www.ntsb.gov/Recs/mostwanted/aviation_improvesafety_e ms_flights.html Peter
Knudson will be the press officer on-scene. Mr. Knudson
may be reached on his cell phone (202-557-1350) when he
arrives in Tennessee this afternoon. NTSB
Press Contacts: 202-557-1350
(Peter Knudson, on site in Tennessee) 202-314-6100
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