Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal investigators say a tired flight crew and a lack of information from air traffic controllers contributed to the October 2004 crash air ambulance outside San Diego that killed five people.
The Learjet 35A with Albuquerque-based Med Flight Air Ambulance Inc. was thousands of feet too low to clear the mountain it struck, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
The board, in a report issued late last month, said the air traffic controller failed to give the crew instructions about clearing the terrain or advising the crew of the minimum safe altitude during the nighttime flight.
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