Sunday, August 28, 2011

Victims names have been released in deadly helicopter crash. Eurocopter AS 350B2 Ecureuil, N352LN. Midwest National Air Center (KGPH), Mosby, Missouri.

Randy Bever, 47, Chris Frakes, 36, James Freudenberg, 34, and Terry Tacoronte, 58



MOSBY, Mo. -- Names have been released of the victims on board the deadly helicopter crash that killed four people near Kansas City.

Randy Bever,47, Chris Frakes, 36, James Freudenberg, 34, were killed on the medical chopper when it crashed Friday night near Mosby. Terry Tacoronte, 58, a patient on board, was also killed.

The crew was on their way to a local airport to refuel before they went down and now the NTSB is looking into the possibility that they ran out of gas.

Jim Silliman of the NTSB said, "Well, there's a lot of possibilities. We're certainly looking at that because he had notified the airport that he was coming in for fuel, so that certainly is a main area of concern that we're looking at as a possibility. There's other possibilities as well."

Officials say the chopper took off from a hospital in Saint Joseph. They say the skies were clear when the helicopter went down.

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