Care Flight providing medical services crashes in Nevada, killing 5 passengers

A A small plane operated by Care Flight, a regional emergency medical service in Reno, crashed in Stagecoach, Nevada. and left at least 5 deaths on the balance sheet.

“On February 24, 2023, at approximately 9:15 p.m., the Lyon County Control Center received several calls about a possible plane crash in Stagecoach, Nevada,” Sheriff Brad Pope told the New York Post.

Defined as light aircraft PC 12 with five passengers, including a pilot, a nurse, a paramedic and a patient.according to the KOLO 8 report, in which reported no survivors.

The plane was discovered at 23:15 Friday.

REMSA Health, an emergency medical service provider, also confirmed the crash and said it was notifying the families of the victims.

“Care Flight, a service of REMSA Health of Reno, Nevada, and Guardian Flight of Utah, can confirm that a PC 12 aircraft with tail number N273SM disappeared from radar approximately Friday, February 24 at 9:00:45 p.m., not far from Stagecoach, Nevada,” the medical officer said.

“Our immediate focus is to assist our team members and their families, as well as responding agencies… Similar to the Guardian and Care Flight security process in these situations, we are on standby for all Guardian and Care Flight flights across the company. We will be working with each of our businesses to determine when they can return to work,” REMSA Health said.

REMSA Health’s new aircraft program, which includes five bases and a fleet of four helicopters, one aircraft and one emergency ground vehicle, covers approximately 50,000 square miles of California and Nevada and serves 11 states in the western United States. according to his website.

The aircraft was identified on its website as a Pilatus PC-12/45.