Survival Flight - Fatal accident

Date: June 4, 2007 1700 CST

Program: Survival Flight
	University of Michigan Health System
	1500 East Medical Center Dr. 
	B1352TC/5307
	Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5307

Type:  550 Citation ll
Tail #: 550BP
Operator/Vendor: MarLin Air, Inc. 

Weather: Light Rain, Broken clouds at 3,000, overcast at 35,000, winds 10 mph, gusting to 19.

Injuries: 
	David Ashburn MD, Resident, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery - fatal
	Richard Chenault ll, Transplant Donation Specialist - fatal
	Dennis Hoyes, Pilot - fatal
	Rick Lapensee, Transplant Donation Specialist - fatal
	Bill Serra, Pilot - fatal
	Martinus (Martin) Spoor MD, Faculty Cardiac Surgeon with the UM
	faculty - fatal
	

Description: 
	A Citation 550 Citation II (N550BP) jet leased by its U-M Survival
	Flight air ambulance program took off from General Mitchell
	International Airport in Milwaukee at 4:59 p.m. Eastern Time and was
	headed for Willow Run Airport near Detroit, a 42-minute flight. 
	  
	About five minutes after departure from the airport, the pilot
	declared an emergency and requested a return to Mitchell.   The
	aircraft disappeared from radar.  ATC notified the U.S. Coast Guard
	and SAR procedures were implemented.  The impact site is about six
	miles northeast of Milwaukee. 
	
	Early Tuesday morning June 5th, the U.S. Coast Guard has stated that
	the rescue mission has been abandoned and that there are no survivors
	of the crash of the jet carrying six U-M Survival Flight crew members.
	The authorities on scene have determined that this is now a recovery
	effort.
	
	
	
	
	  
	  
	
	 
	     
	
	

Additional Info: 
	According to the NTSB, review of the recorded ATC transmission, the
	pilot stated that he was having control problems and possibly a ?trim
	runaway?.
	Currently the investigation is ongoing and no definitive cause has
	been identified.

Source: Denise Landis, RN, Manager, Critical Care Transport

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