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Five dead, including patient, in medical flight crash in Nevada

Care Flight, which provides ambulance service by plane and helicopter, said the dead included the pilot, a flight nurse, a flight paramedic, a patient and a patient's family member.

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All five people aboard a medical transport flight, including a patient, were killed in a plane crash in a mountainous area in northern Nevada.

The Lyon County Sheriff's office said authorities began receiving calls about the crash on Friday night near Stagecoach, Nevada, around 9:15 pm and found the wreckage two hours later. Stagecoach, a rural community home to around 2,500 residents, is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Reno.

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