
Medical Helicopter Crash Off Catalina Island Kills Three as Divers Find Missing Patient
The REACH Air Medical aircraft went down shortly after takeoff Wednesday night; the NTSB is investigating and the wreckage lies about 200 feet underwater.
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The REACH Air Medical aircraft went down shortly after takeoff Wednesday night; the NTSB is investigating and the wreckage lies about 200 feet underwater.
WatchThe Eurocopter AS350 came down just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, two hours after a Metro bus and an SUV collided on Nordhoff Street and killed two people. The NTSB arrives Wednesday morning.

The cargo jet touched down at 182 mph, went to go-around power 15 seconds after landing, then back to idle. Amazon is shifting the routes to Sun Country and Hawaiian while the investigation continues.
WatchFlight 7598, a 32-year-old Boeing 767 flown by 21 Air, overran Runway 30 at Miami International shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday and struck vehicles on Northwest 42nd Avenue. Five more people were hurt, three of them critically.
WatchThe FAA says an Envoy Air regional jet and the president's helicopter lost required separation over Washington on Tuesday. Controllers were supposed to halt departures three minutes before Marine One lifted off — and air traffic audio shows the pilots called the tower at least three times.
WatchA preliminary federal report says an air traffic controller had already cleared an American Airlines jet for takeoff, then forgot — and a false cockpit warning turned a routine departure into one of the year's closest calls.
WatchA pilot and 11 skydivers were killed when their aircraft banked sharply and went down near Butler Memorial Airport, in one of the deadliest U.S. skydiving disasters in decades.

Both fuel-cutoff levers were moved to 'cutoff' within a second of each other and the control wheels jerked back and forth in the seconds before the Boeing 737 nosedived into a Guangxi mountainside, killing 132.
WatchAudio recordings from Sunday night's deadly runway collision reveal a controller acknowledging fault seconds after an Air Canada CRJ-900 struck a fire truck at approximately 100 mph, killing both pilots and injuring 41 passengers.
A Jazz Aviation regional jet operating on behalf of Air Canada struck a Port Authority firefighting vehicle on the runway late Sunday, forcing closure of one of America's busiest airports.