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Hospital honors 10-year mark of fatal Utah AirMed crash

By Carlos Mayorga
The Daily Utah Chronicle
Copyright 2008 The Daily Utah Chronicle

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON, Utah — The program that transports emergency patients to the University Hospital by helicopter, is “bigger, stronger and safer,” a hospital official told families and friends of four people who died when a helicopter crashed in bad weather 10 years ago.

More than 70 people gathered at the U hospital helipad Friday afternoon to remember the 10-year anniversary one of the most heartbreaking events in the hospital’s history.

On Jan. 11, 1998, AirMed helicopter number four went down in Little Cottonwood Canyon during a sudden snowstorm. The crash killed everyone on board: Pilot Stan Berg, Paramedic Tim Hynes, Registered Nurse Shayne Carnahan and patient David Anderson.

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