NTSB Meets on MD Police Chopper Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, October 27 to determine the probable cause of the fatal crash of a Maryland State Police helicopter on an emergency medical services mission last year. On September 27, 2008, an Aerospatiale (Eurocopter), call sign Trooper 2, registered to and operated by the Maryland State Police (MSP) as a public medical evacuation (medevac) flight, impacted terrain in District Heights, MD while on approach to  Andrews AFB.  The flight was attempting an instrument landing system (ILS) approach. The pilot, one flight paramedic, one field provider, and one of two automobile accident patients being transported were killed. The other patient being transported survived with serious injuries from the helicopter accident and was taken to a local hospital.