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To: Paul Lee who wrote (203)	1/12/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: Paul Lee	Respond to of 877

Fron the online salt lake tribune: Medical Helicopter Crashes, Kills Four Associated Press A medical helicopter rescuing a skier injured in an avalanche crashed in a snowstorm en route to the hospital late Sunday, killing all four people on board. The University of Utah Health Sciences Center helicopter took off from a parking lot at the White Pine area in Little Cottonwood Canyon, about 18 miles southeast of here, around 11 p.m. Sunday. About 2:30 a.m. today searchers found wreckage on the north side of the canyon in a wooded area of the mountainside, across the highway from where the helicopter took off. ''It's an intensive crash site with lots of damage to the aircraft. It was a mile up off the road in a hard area to get to,'' said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jim Potter. Found dead at the crash site were the pilot Stan Berg, paramedic Tim Hynes, nurse Shayne Carnahan and David Anderson, the injured skier, a hospital spokesman said. Their ages were not immediately available. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were expected to arrive today to determine the cause of the crash, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle. The helicopter was responding to a call to retrieve a backcountry skier injured in an avalanche in the White Pine area, about a mile from Snowbird ski resort, when a snowstorm blew in during the rescue. KUTV television reported that sheriff's search and rescue crews saw the helicopter hovering overhead and believed it was going to land, when it suddenly rose, veered to the right and disappeared. Moments later they heard a muffled explosion. ''We don't know if it was a visibility problem, or if the winds caught, but it appears they drifted to the north, and struck the mountainside,'' said sheriff's Capt. Jeff Carr. The mood was somber at University hospital, where the last medical helicopter crash occurred in 1983 during a snowstorm that claimed the life of the pilot. ''It's a very sad and tragic day for university hospital and the state of Utah,'' said John Dwan, hospital spokesman. ''Three individuals dedicated to helping other people and saving lives lost theirs.'' Dwan said it is the pilot's decision whether to fly in stormy weather. An earlier attempt to rescue Anderson in the late afternoon was aborted because of weather conditions, he said. Dwan confirmed reports that Anderson's wife, who had been skiing with her husband when a snowslide injured him, was waiting at the hospital when she got word of his death about 5 a.m. Little Cottonwood Canyon was closed early today as crews conducted avalanche control procedures following the overnight snowstorm, which dropped about one foot of new snow.