January 2, 2013
Helicopter Crash Victims Honored at Mayo Clinic
Federal investigators are still working to determine what doomed a helicopter carrying a heart surgeon and technician from the Mayo Clinic in Florida last year. Dr. Luis Bonilla and procurement technician David Hines were flying from Jacksonville to Gainesville to retrieve a heart for transplant when their helicopter crashed Dec. 26, 2011. They were killed […]
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January 25, 2012
Lawsuit filed in Florida helicopter crash that killed heart transplant team
A helicopter that crashed during a flight to pick up a heart for transplant, killing all three people on board, should never have taken off because weather conditions and visibility were too poor, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a victim. The Dec. 26 crash in northeast Florida killed Dr. […]
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January 24, 2012
Family sues company whose helicopter crash killed Mayo Clinic transplant mission team
David Hines left a phone message for his daughters Christmas Eve. It was the last time Christine Hines and Crystal Griner would hear their 57-year-old father before he and two others were killed in the Dec. 26 crash of a helicopter transplant mission headed to Gainesville for Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic. “Hey, sweetheart, it’s your dad. […]
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