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aardvark2zz
25th October 2004, 06:15
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Search crews found three bodies and were searching for two more near the wreckage of a medical jet that crashed Sunday in rugged terrain near the Mexico border, killing all five aboard.

The Learjet was being used as an air ambulance when it crashed carrying two pilots, two paramedics and a nurse on a flight bound for Albuquerque, N.M.

The plane went down around 12:30 a.m. Sunday in a mountainous region about two miles east of the small San Diego airstrip where it had taken off, said Larry Levy, CEO and medical director of Albuquerque-based Med Flight Air Ambulance, which owned the aircraft........

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041025/D85U7HGO2.html

ironbutt57
25th October 2004, 11:55
Brown Field is hardly a "small San Diego Airstrip" as it was worded, and yes Otay Mountain is just to the northeast..same place Reba McIntyre's band experienced a CFIT accident in an HS-125 years back

air pig
25th October 2004, 13:40
From someone in the UK aeromedical community, codolences to the families of all involved.