Guardian Flight planes also crashed with fatalities in Hawaii in 2022 and in Alaska near Juneau in 2019.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023, at the crash site in Dayton, Nev., documenting the wreckage of a Pilatus PC-12 medical air transport flight operated by Guardian Flight that crashed on Friday, Feb. 24, while en route from Reno, Nevada, to Salt Lake City.
A single-engine Pilatus PC12 was heading from Reno to Salt Lake City on Feb. 24 when investigators say it broke apart. It plummeted to the ground near rural Stagecoach, 40 miles southeast of Reno. The dead included pilot, Scott Walton, 46, and two medical crew members, Edward Pricola, 32, and Ryan Watson, 27. The patient was Mark Rand, 69. His wife, Terri Rand, 66, had been accompanying him.
The flight was a Care Flight, which is a service of REMSA Health. Care Flight’s aviation vendor is Guardian Flight. REMSA has grounded its Care Flights for now.Jena Esposito, KPS3 PR manager and a spokesperson for REMSA, declined comment and deferred inquiries to Guardian Flight, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment.In December, a Hawaii Life Flight medical transport crew was en route to get a patient when they crashed into the ocean off Maui.
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