The Latest: Medical plane might have broken up in mid-air
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on an air ambulance crash in western North Dakota that killed all three people on board (all times local):
12:30 p.m.
A Civil Air Patrol official says an initial investigation indicates an air ambulance plane that crashed in western North Dakota might have broken up in midair.
The late-Sunday crash of the twin-engine Bismarck Air Medical plane killed all three people on board — the pilot, a paramedic and a nurse.
Civil Air Patrol Lt. Col. Sean Johnson says an analysis by an Air Force rescue team based at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida indicates the plane might have broken up at about 14,000 feet (4,300 meters). He says the debris on the ground also indicated that.