Air Ambulance Halts Service After 5 People Killed In Crash Near Alpine

Air Ambulance Stat, the medical wing of Amarillo-based O’Hara Flying Service, has temporarily halted service after the crash on Sunday of one of its twin-engine Cessna 421 planes about a mile east of Alpine-Casparis Municipal Airport that killed five people, the Odessa American newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board had investigators on site and had at lest one agent from its transportation disaster assistance office, which provides assistance to those affected by plane crashes, in Alpine.

According to Texas Department of Public Safety reports, the plane was attempting to make an emergency landing, when it hit a rut in a muddy field, overturned and burned.

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