Posted on 12/09/2007 7:03:53 AM PST by RDTF
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Searchers have found a body and wreckage from a medical helicopter missing since Monday, a spokesman for the rescue effort said.
The body of John Stumpff, 47, a flight nurse, was discovered Saturday on the north shore of Passage Canal near Whittier in Prince William Sound, said McHugh Pierre, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Still missing are three other people aboard the Eurocopter BK 117: patient Gaye McDowell, 60, pilot Lance Brabham, 42, and paramedic Cameron Carter, 25. The search was to resume before dawn Sunday.
"We're going to assume there are survivors," Pierre said, citing warm weather as favorable conditions for survival.
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I am so sorry.
Good news is that there is still hope for the others.
Prayers for all involved.
My daughter is a flight nurse and I worry no ends about her safety. Majority of flight services are now for profit and safety too often takes a back seat to the bottom line.
My best friend is a Flightnurse also. She loves it, but I still worry about her.
May God watch over those who do that kind of work.
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