The plane is estimated to have gone down minutes later, around 1:05 a.m., leaving a 2,400-foot swath of debris on rugged timber land owned by Green Diamond. He confirms again that he has three on board then contact stops, the report states. He then tells the controller there’s smoke in the cockpit, declares an emergency, and says he is returning the Bay Area bound flight carrying patient April Rodriquez, flight nurse Deborah Kroon and flight paramedic Michelle Tarwater to Crescent City.įourteen seconds later, Mills asks for fire crews to stage at the airport and is told crash rescue would be standing by. In a series of communications with a Seattle air route traffic controller that span just over a minute, pilot Larry Mills reported “that it looked like he was going to lose some power shortly, and said he would keep her posted as long as he could,” according to the report released last night. The pilot of a Cal-Ore medical transport flight that crashed near McKinleyville on July 29 relayed worsening conditions on board just before radio communication was lost, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report. Debris from the Cal-Ore Life Flight crash north of McKinleyville.
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