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The young patient and five others killed when their plane crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood moments after takeoff Friday evening have been identified — as authorities made a disturbing discovery about the jet’s black box. Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11, her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31, Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, and paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla died in the Mexico-bound Learjet 55 aircraft crash, the company operating the medical transport flight, Jet Rescue Air, told CBS News. Valentina had just finished receiving life-saving treatment at Shriners Children’s Hospital and was heading...

It seems that there was no neurosurgeon at the local hospital, and no medical helicopter in the entire province of Quebec, so once she fell poor Natasha was doomed, even if she had asked for immediate medical assistance. It seems almost unbelievable in the 21st century, but that's what socialized medicine brings you. Death.

Staff Sgt. Bryan Resh stands in front of a medical evacuation helicopter at Forward Operating Base Sykes where he is serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Resh is one of several crewmembers of Dustoff 77, which has been awarded the Army Aviation Association of AmericaÂ’s Rescue of the Year Award. U.S. Army courtesy photo Air Ambulance Team Awarded for Daring Rescue The crew of Dustoff 77 risk life and limb to save the lives of their fellow soldiers. By Spc. Daniel Bearl 25th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2007 --When the soldiers from the 68th Medical...

RESCUE TEAMS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 5 - For days, an unnatural quiet had settled on the Army's 45th Medical Company, one of four airborne medical evacuation units supporting 130,000 American troops in Iraq. Little was heard of the three rings on the radios carried by the standby crews for the Black Hawk helicopters, signaling casualties requiring urgent airlift after a bomb or an ambush or a firefight somewhere out in the 125-degree heat of the Iraqi summer. But the dog days of August, and the long hours of watching James Bond movies and Nascar races on the Pentagon's TV channel,...

A Norwegian air ambulance crew almost ignored the smell of an on board fire because they thought it was just the patients farting. They noticed a cabbage-like smell which turned out to be a blaze near the front window of the aircraft. An investigation has traced the smell to burning wire insulation. "Everyone who has flown knows that gases arise that need to slip out. It isn't unusual that this happens to our patients," said ambulance chief Geir-Arne Soerensen of Air Transport, the company responsible for the flight. The flames flared up three times, despite attempts to extinguish them and...