WASHINGTON, 26 February — All five occupants of a medical transport plane that crashed in the western US state of Nevada perished, according to the plane’s owner yesterday.
According to a statement from Remsa Health, the jet vanished from radar Friday evening outside the arid hamlet of Stagecoach, close to Nevada’s border with California.
The Central Lyon County Fire Department has now confirmed that none of the five passengers on board survived, and we are heartbroken to announce that.
Although the specifics of the crash are yet unknown, it took place when a powerful winter storm pounded the US west coast, dropping feet of snow in the high mountains and even blanketing typically mild places in southern California.
According to the PowerOutage.us tracker, around 100,000 Californians were without power Wednesday evening.
