Officers are investigating after a medical helicopter crashed on a Sacramento freeway Monday night.
The Sacramento Fireplace Division mentioned a REACH medical helicopter went down shortly after 7 p.m. on eastbound Freeway 50 close to 59th Road.
Three crew members — a pilot, a nurse and a paramedic — had been on board and all had been taken to space hospitals with essential accidents, Captain Justin Sylvia with Sacramento Fireplace mentioned. No automobiles on the freeway had been concerned.
Two crew members had been positioned within the roadway whereas one of many crew members was trapped below the helicopter when the primary unit from the hearth division arrived, Sylvia mentioned. A fireplace captain and bystanders who supplied assist had been capable of raise the plane off the trapped crew member.
“We’re within the technique of figuring out the small print of this example, in addition to the situation of the REACH crew concerned, who had been all taken to space hospitals,” REACH mentioned in a press release. “We are going to proceed to offer data because it turns into obtainable. There was no affected person on board.
One lane of Eastbound Freeway 50 had been reopened at 59th Road to permit for visitors to move by means of, the California Freeway Patrol mentioned.
The reason for the crash stays below investigation. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it’s aiding the CHP.
Video obtained by CBS Sacramento from an individual inside a automobile within the westbound lanes of the freeway captured the second the helicopter went down. A photograph taken by a CBS Sacramento crew on the scene exhibits the helicopter the wrong way up throughout a number of lanes lined in particles.
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CBS Sacramento has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration however has not instantly heard again.
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