TinEar
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Medical flight missing in the DC area.
[[Everything below is edits as info becomes available]]
MedEvac helicopter crashes. (BK117 type helo if I heard right)
Now wreckage being reported sighted in the river near the Wilson Bridge.
Report from Park Police HQ was that a medical flight dropped a patient off at Washington Hospital Center and then went missing on a planned return to Stafford.
Park Police Eagle flight which was already in the air involved in the search for a suspect in a stolen car bailout headed for the scene. He's reporting two other med helos are already overhead the wreckage.
The crash site is being worked on the Fairfax net. Trooper 2 is going in to pick up injured apparently. He needs to work with Fairfax for the landing zone but can't communicate with them.
Just learned Eagle 2 from the Park Police is going to do the communications. And now he's apparently going to be involved in the pickup in some way or fashion.
They are talking about closing the "Parkway" but didn't identify which parkway. They say it's right at the edge of Alexandria.
They've made some other arrangements so Eagle2 is not needed for comms. He's diverting for another mission.
DC has divers in the water looking for bodies/survivors. PG County is also involved with their fireboats and other units. Coast Guard has boats in the area searching - and it looks like several entities have watercraft conducting search operations.
PG comms are on their fire channel 4 and are patching some info on channel 8.
Fairfax Command is communicating with PG Command for the incident on PG's channel 8. Coasts Guard is sending up illumination flares. PG is offering a barge with lighting to light up the area.
Now most of the command units are being patched onto PG's channel 8. Coast Guard is on Marine 16
We have a PG Command, Fairfax Command, Bellhaven Command, DC Command all on PG channel 8. Fairfax activity is on their channel 4L which is being partially patched onto PG 8 also as needed.
Fairfax Command is reporting a second victim has been found and being brought to Jones Point. They did not give condition of victims - dead or alive.
PG Fireboat 201 reports he has the second victim and maybe will have a third shortly. Reports are that one victim is tangled in the wreckage in the water and they are working on extracting him.
At 12:59 a.m. they announce all victims have been recovered. No conditions have been given but it sounds grave - especially now at 1:05 when they announce all victims will be held at Jones Point. Water search has been called off.
At 1:20 a.m. they realize they have double counted someone and have NOT recovered the third victim. They are reorganizing the search boats and associated units to restart the search. They also already have a private contractor at the scene to raise the wreckage when the search is completed. They suspect third victim is under the helo's remains. They are now treating the whole area as a crime scene and so no contractors (the barge with the crane) allowed in until later.
And with that I'll end this long winded post.
PG Fire channel 8 is 494.8875 mHz - Morse callsign broadcast on this freq was KUX236.
Every news unit in the area is at the scene so the rest of the story will be on the nightly (or morning) news.
[[Everything below is edits as info becomes available]]
MedEvac helicopter crashes. (BK117 type helo if I heard right)
Now wreckage being reported sighted in the river near the Wilson Bridge.
Report from Park Police HQ was that a medical flight dropped a patient off at Washington Hospital Center and then went missing on a planned return to Stafford.
Park Police Eagle flight which was already in the air involved in the search for a suspect in a stolen car bailout headed for the scene. He's reporting two other med helos are already overhead the wreckage.
The crash site is being worked on the Fairfax net. Trooper 2 is going in to pick up injured apparently. He needs to work with Fairfax for the landing zone but can't communicate with them.
Just learned Eagle 2 from the Park Police is going to do the communications. And now he's apparently going to be involved in the pickup in some way or fashion.
They are talking about closing the "Parkway" but didn't identify which parkway. They say it's right at the edge of Alexandria.
They've made some other arrangements so Eagle2 is not needed for comms. He's diverting for another mission.
DC has divers in the water looking for bodies/survivors. PG County is also involved with their fireboats and other units. Coast Guard has boats in the area searching - and it looks like several entities have watercraft conducting search operations.
PG comms are on their fire channel 4 and are patching some info on channel 8.
Fairfax Command is communicating with PG Command for the incident on PG's channel 8. Coasts Guard is sending up illumination flares. PG is offering a barge with lighting to light up the area.
Now most of the command units are being patched onto PG's channel 8. Coast Guard is on Marine 16
We have a PG Command, Fairfax Command, Bellhaven Command, DC Command all on PG channel 8. Fairfax activity is on their channel 4L which is being partially patched onto PG 8 also as needed.
Fairfax Command is reporting a second victim has been found and being brought to Jones Point. They did not give condition of victims - dead or alive.
PG Fireboat 201 reports he has the second victim and maybe will have a third shortly. Reports are that one victim is tangled in the wreckage in the water and they are working on extracting him.
At 12:59 a.m. they announce all victims have been recovered. No conditions have been given but it sounds grave - especially now at 1:05 when they announce all victims will be held at Jones Point. Water search has been called off.
At 1:20 a.m. they realize they have double counted someone and have NOT recovered the third victim. They are reorganizing the search boats and associated units to restart the search. They also already have a private contractor at the scene to raise the wreckage when the search is completed. They suspect third victim is under the helo's remains. They are now treating the whole area as a crime scene and so no contractors (the barge with the crane) allowed in until later.
And with that I'll end this long winded post.
PG Fire channel 8 is 494.8875 mHz - Morse callsign broadcast on this freq was KUX236.
Every news unit in the area is at the scene so the rest of the story will be on the nightly (or morning) news.
