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A two-person Mercy Air medical transport crew was unhurt after making an emergency landing Tuesday near the Salton Sea, a sheriff's spokesman said.
There were no patients aboard the helicopter, which set down about 10:45 a.m. in the unincorporated county area of Oasis, Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman Angel Ramos said.
"Everyone's OK,'' he said. "It was just a precautionary landing." Ramos referred inquiries for flight and mechanical details to Mercy Air officials, who could not immediately be reached for comment.
It was unclear why the helicopter had to land, where it came from or where it was going. Mercy Air's Riverside County bases are in Twentynine Palms, Banning and Thermal, according to its website.
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OASIS, Calif. -- The Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirms a Mercy Air helicopter made an emergency landing near the Salton Sea on Tuesday morning.
There were no patients aboard the helicopter, which set down about 10:45 a.m. in the unincorporated county area of Oasis, Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman Angel Ramos said.
"Everyone's OK,'' he said. "It was just a precautionary landing." Ramos referred inquiries for flight and mechanical details to Mercy Air officials, who could not immediately be reached for comment.
It was unclear why the helicopter had to land, where it came from or where it was going. Mercy Air's Riverside County bases are in Twentynine Palms, Banning and Thermal, according to its website.
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OASIS, Calif. -- The Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirms a Mercy Air helicopter made an emergency landing near the Salton Sea on Tuesday morning.
The helicopter landed in a field on Polk and Avenue 74 at around 10:40 a.m., according to a sheriff's dispatcher who spoke to News Channel 3.
No patients were on board at the time.
Right now, we do not know if there are any injuries or what caused the helicopter to make that landing.
A medical helicopter safely made an emergency landing in an Oasis field Tuesday morning, a sheriff's spokesman said.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department got word of the Mercy Air landing at 10:40 a.m., said Deputy Angel Ramos.
By 11 a.m., deputies had not yet arrived at the field near Polk Street and Avenue 74, so other details weren't available, Ramos said.
The phone number listed for Mercy Air’s parent company in Denver, Air Methods Corp., was busy at midday Tuesday.
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