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Arab Times
06-08-2025
- Health
- Arab Times
4 die in crash of medical transport plane on Navajo Nation in northern Arizona
WASHINGTON, Aug 6, (AP): A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement. A Beechcraft King Air 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with two pilots and two health care providers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and CSI Aviation. It crashed in the early afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of Phoenix. "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong,' district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 p.m. of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. CSI Aviation officials "with great sadness' confirmed the deaths in an emailed statement and extended condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the people killed. Their names haven't been released. The company is cooperating with the investigation, according to the statement. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. "These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation,' he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 27,000 square-mile (70,000 square-kilometer) reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe.
Al Etihad
06-08-2025
- General
- Al Etihad
Four dead after medical transport plane crashes in Arizona
6 Aug 2025 09:08 (The New York Times)Four people were killed when a medical transport plane they were in crashed and caught fire while landing at an airport in the Navajo Nation in Arizona on Tuesday, the authorities said. The plane, a Beechcraft 300, was landing at Chinle Municipal Airport to pick up a patient for a medical transfer when it crashed, said Emmett Yazzie, a commander in the Navajo Nation Police Department. There were two pilots and two health care providers on board, all of whom died in the crash, said Robert St. James, a spokesman for CSI Aviation, the company that owned the plane. There were no patients on board, he said. The plane missed the runway at the airport by about 300 yards, according to Chrissy Largo, a spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation Police Department, and crashed around 12:40 p.m. local time, the department said in a statement on social media.
The Advertiser
06-08-2025
- Health
- The Advertiser
Four killed in plane crash on Navajo Nation in Arizona
A small medical transport plane has crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people. A Beechcraft 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with four medical personnel on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. It crashed in early Tuesday afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 480km northeast of Phoenix. "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong," district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 pm of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. "These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation," he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 70,000sq km reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe. In January, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said the voice recorder on that plane was not working. A small medical transport plane has crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people. A Beechcraft 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with four medical personnel on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. It crashed in early Tuesday afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 480km northeast of Phoenix. "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong," district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 pm of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. "These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation," he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 70,000sq km reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe. In January, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said the voice recorder on that plane was not working. A small medical transport plane has crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people. A Beechcraft 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with four medical personnel on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. It crashed in early Tuesday afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 480km northeast of Phoenix. "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong," district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 pm of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. "These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation," he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 70,000sq km reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe. In January, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said the voice recorder on that plane was not working. A small medical transport plane has crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people. A Beechcraft 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with four medical personnel on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. It crashed in early Tuesday afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 480km northeast of Phoenix. "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong," district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 pm of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. "These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation," he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 70,000sq km reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe. In January, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said the voice recorder on that plane was not working.
06-08-2025
- Health
4 people die in crash of medical transport plane on Navajo Nation in northern Arizona
A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement. A Beechcraft King Air 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with two pilots and two health care providers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and CSI Aviation. It crashed in the early afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of Phoenix. 'They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong,' district Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said. The crew was planning pick up a patient who needed critical care from the federal Indian Health Service hospital in Chinle, said Sharen Sandoval, director of the Navajo Department of Emergency Management. She said the plan was to return to Albuquerque. The patient's location and condition were not known Tuesday evening. Tribal authorities began receiving reports at 12:44 p.m. of black smoke at the airport, Sandoval said. The cause of the crash wasn't known, the tribe said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating. CSI Aviation officials 'with great sadness' confirmed the deaths in an emailed statement and extended condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the people killed. Their names haven't been released. The company is cooperating with the investigation, according to the statement. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a social media post that he was heartbroken to learn of the crash. 'These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation,' he said. Medical transports by air from the Navajo Nation are common because most hospitals are small and do not offer advanced or trauma care. The Chinle airport is one of a handful of airports that the tribe owns and operates on the vast 27,000 square-mile (70,000 square-kilometer) reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- the largest land base of any Native American tribe. In January, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said the voice recorder on that plane was not working. ___
Straits Times
06-08-2025
- General
- Straits Times
4 dead after medical transport plane crashes in Arizona
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox The plane missed the runway at the airport by about 275m. Four people were killed when a medical transport plane they were in crashed and caught fire while landing at an airport in the Navajo Nation in Arizona on Aug 5, the authorities said. The plane, a Beechcraft 300, was landing at Chinle Municipal Airport to pick up a patient for a medical transfer when it crashed, said a commander in the Navajo Nation Police Department, Emmett Yazzie. There were two pilots and two health care providers on board, all of whom died in the crash, said Mr Robert St. James, a spokesperson for CSI Aviation, the company that owned the plane. There were no patients on board, he said. The plane missed the runway at the airport by about 275m, according to Ms Chrissy Largo, a spokesperson for the Navajo Nation Police Department, and crashed around 12.40pm local time, the department said in a statement on social media. The aircraft, a small dual-propeller medical transport plane, had been dispatched to provide air ambulance services to patients in eastern Arizona, Mr St. James said. It was en route to Chinle Municipal Airport, a small airport in Apache County, Arizona, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ms Largo said. It was not immediately clear what had caused the crash, the police said. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board said they would investigate the crash. CSI Aviation was cooperating with investigators, Mr St. James said, and the company plans to provide support services to the families of victims. NYTIMES
