06-08-2025
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.
