"Medical flight got wrong fuel before crash" Associated Press September 10, 2014
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Federal safety investigators say an air ambulance received the wrong fuel at a New Mexico airport before it took off and crashed, killing all four people aboard.
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says the twin-engine aircraft was refueled with 40 gallons of jet fuel instead of aviation gasoline at the Las Cruces airport on Aug. 27.
The plane was headed for Phoenix. All three crew members and one patient were killed.
The NTSB preliminary report issued Monday does not say whether the wrong fuel caused the crash. The report says a crew member called the dispatcher on a satellite telephone and reported they were returning because smoke was coming from the right engine.
The NTSB will issue a final report later on the crash.
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