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Ice Ingestion

Unnoticed deposits of ice near an engine air inlet caused the AS350 to lose power after takeoff.

by Linda Werfelman | March 17, 2016

Temperatures were well below freezing when the EagleMed Eurocopter AS350 B2 crashed into an Oklahoma City retirement home parking lot during a Feb. 22, 2013, repositioning flight and exploded in flames, killing the pilot of the emergency medical services flight and the flight nurse and seriously injuring the paramedic.

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