Fredrick Green, Freddy Martinez, 29, Taurean Summers, 28, and Monica Chavez, 36, killed in medical flight plane crash near Las Cruces Airport in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Victims killed in plane crash ID'd
Witnesses told state police the plane was flying low before it went down shortly after takeoff about a mile south of I-10. The plane burst into flames on impact killing everyone on board.
4 killed in plane crash near Las Cruces
According to New Mexico State Police the plane had just left the Las Cruces Airport en route to Phoenix, Arizona. NMSP said the plane crashed just south of Interstate 10 near the Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds and burst into flames.
4 dead in southern NM plane crash
A twin engine, fixed-wing aircraft crashed and became engulfed in flame after taking off from the Las Cruces Airport Wednesday. The plane was headed to Phoenix and crashed at about 7 p.m. one mile south of Interstate 10, near the Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds.
Plane heading to Phoenix crashes, 4 killed
Green's brother, Leslie, says his brother had been staying with him in Las Cruces while he underwent radiation treatment for a brain tumor.
Medical flight got wrong fuel before crash
The NTSB preliminary report issued Monday does not say whether the wrong fuel caused the crash. However, it says a crew member called the dispatcher on a satellite telephone and reported they were returning because smoke was coming from the right engine.
NTSB: Wrong fuel pumped into plane caused deadly crash in Las Cruces
Forty gallons of Jet A fuel was pumped into the plane instead of the required aviation gasoline.
Autopsy reports in Las Cruces plane crash released
Four people killed in an air ambulance crash west of Las Cruces in August died from a combination of burns, smoke inhalation and blunt force trauma, according to autopsy reports.
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The plane was registered to Amigos Aviation Services from Arlington, Texas. A cancer patient was being transported to Phoenix, and was killed in the crash along with three medical staff. A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says that the plane was refueled with 40 gallons of jet fuel instead of aviation gasoline at the Las Cruces airport before takeoff.
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