3 killed in medical helicopter crash

CINCINNATI – Three crew members from central Ohio were killed in the crash of their medical helicopter in a remote area of southeast Ohio Tuesday morning.

Pilot Jennifer Topper, 34, of Sunbury, and two flight nurses — 48-year-old Bradley Haynes of London and 33-year-old Rachel Cunningham of Galloway — were killed when their helicopter crashed near Zaleski, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.

Federal Aviation Administration investigators were at the scene.

Survival Flight medical transportation reported around 7:20 a.m. Tuesday losing communication with a helicopter flying from the Mount Carmel Hospital in Grove City to pick up a hospital patient in Pomeroy.

Wreckage was found in woods some 75 miles southeast of Columbus.