Arquivo de ambulance

OTTAWA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) announced Monday it will lead the investigation into the crash of an air ambulance aircraft in international waters off Nantucket in the U.S. state of Massachusetts on Oct. 3. Ontario-based operator Latitude Air Ambulance said all six aboard the Gulfstream G100 aircraft -- four Canadian crew members, a patient, and the patient's escort -- were presumed dead. The TSB said the aircraft had departed Bermuda and was approaching the Boston area when the crew reported electrical difficulties. The aircraft then descended rapidly before air traffic controllers lost contact with it south of Nantucket. Under international agreements, Canada, as the state of registry of the aircraft, is responsible for conducting the inv...

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Search for the six people on board an air ambulance and the black box continues, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday. "Our priority is to find the six personnel on that aircraft," Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard's northeast district Matt Lake told reporters. The next step in the search will be looking for the jet's black box, which might prove difficult given how "extensive" the debris field is. "In the debris we've identified at this point, there is no indication that we found a black box," he said. Officials did not provide the exact size of the debris field. But the size and amount of debris has made it "very difficult to get into the details of what's there," said Kastriot Kastrati, search and rescue mission coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard's ...

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Canada to lead probe into air ambulance crash with 6 presumed dead-Xinhua

U.S. continues search for black box, people on board air ambulance -Xinhua