Medical Aircraft Goes down over Lake Michigan

My thoughts and prays to the family and friends of these lost souls......-_-
 
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/crash.htm

News Update – University of Michigan Health System9 p.m. ET June 4, 2007

Survival Flight air ambulance crashes into Lake Michigan; search for survivors continues

At approximately 5:50 p.m. ET today, the University of Michigan Health System was notified that a Cessna jet leased by its U-M Survival Flight air ambulance program had crashed into Lake Michigan.

Six members of the U-M Survival Flight team were aboard: two members of the staff of Marlin Air, which flies all Survival Flight airplane missions, and four U-M employees. The aircraft was owned by Toy Air and based at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, and was en route back to U-M after procuring organs for transplant into a patient at U-M.

Aboard the aircraft were:

David Ashburn, M.D., a fellow (physician-in-training) in cardiothoracic surgery
Richard Chenault II, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
Dennis Hoyes, a Marlin air pilot
Richard Lapensee, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
Bill Serra, a Marlin air pilot
Martinus (Martin) Spoor, M.D., a cardiac surgeon who had been on the U-M faculty since 2003
 
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http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/crash.htm



Aboard the aircraft were:

David Ashburn, M.D., a fellow (physician-in-training) in cardiothoracic surgery
Richard Chenault II, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
Dennis Hoyes, a Marlin air pilot
Richard Lapensee, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
Bill Serra, a Marlin air pilot
Martinus (Martin) Spoor, M.D., a cardiac surgeon who had been on the U-M faculty since 2003
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What a huge loss of committed folks deeply involved in a highly important area of life saving. A tragedy. My heart goes out to their families.
 
It is such a tragic story....my prayers are with all involved and their families.

Any news on how the transplant patient is? I heard they had already started surgery prepping him for the transplant when the plane went down.

-Matt
 
Patient gets second set of lungs
By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jun 8, 8:38 PM ET

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A patient whose double lung transplant operation was stopped after a plane carrying donor organs crashed into Lake Michigan has received a second set of lungs, doctors announced Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/organ_transplant_crash
 
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