COLUMBUS, OH. (THECOUNT) — Pilot Jennifer Topper, 34, nurse Bradley Haynes, 48, and nurse Rachel Cunningham, 33, have been identified as the victims killed after a medical helicopter set to pick up a patient crashed 70 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday.
All three aboard the Emergency Medical Services for Survival Flight Inc. helicopter died before 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to a statement from the Ohio State Highway Patrol Tuesday, no one on the ground was injured as a result of the Bell 407 helicopter crash.
The helicopter was going to pick up a patient in an Ohio hospital, but crashed at 6:50 a.m., DailyCaller reported Wednesday morning.
“We are obviously devastated,” Vice President of Emergency Medical Services for Survival Flight Inc. Andy Arthurs said in a statement.
Survival Flight Inc. focuses on air medical transportation and has bases in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Oklahoma. The planes, however, will fly to any part of the U.S., according to the organization’s website.
The cause if the crash remains under investigation.
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