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Pilot Killed in CA Plane Crash was Doctor Leaving to Provide Medical Care to Mexican Village
According to a MercuryNews.com report, a Northern California airport accident claimed the life of a 66-year-old pilot who was an emergency room doctor on a charitable mission for Los Medicos Voladores, which is Spanish for “The Flying Doctors.” The physician, a resident of Yreka, recently joined the volunteer group and was headed to Bahia Tortugas in Baja California, Mexico with friends to provide medical and dental care to hundreds of people in the Mexican village. The trio was planning to join three other airborne teams who were going to do the same.
The news report states that the 66-year-old had told his two passengers to get off of the plane so he could test the airworthiness of the single-engine Piper Comanche. The pilot was concerned that there wasn’t sufficient lift. On his second takeoff attempt by himself, he hit a hangar at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport in Truckee just after takeoff and, according to officials with the Nevada County coroner’s office, the doctor tragically died on impact. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the fatal plane crash.
An avid airplane enthusiast who has been flying planes since his youth, the 66-year-old was the medical director at Fairchild Medical Center in Yreka and was an emergency room doctor as well. The spokesman for Los Medicos Voladores states that the organization shares the devastation over the tragic accident with the man’s family and friends, adding that because of his “selfless concern” for his friends’ safety, the other two passengers are alive.
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