Two UMMC employees and the pilot died in the crash: Dustin Pope, a flight nurse and the base supervisor for AirCare in Columbus; Jakob Kindt, a critical care paramedic from Tupel; and Cal Wesolowski of Starkville, a pilot with Med-Trans, which leases helicopters to UMMC.

A pilot and two crew members were aboard the helicopter, which was not carrying any patients when it plunged into the woods outside Jackson, Miss.

A medical transport helicopter crashed Monday in Mississippi, while carrying two hospital workers and a pilot, officials said.

Three crew members aboard an AirCare helicopter from the University of Mississippi Medical Center died in a crash in remote Madison County Monday afternoon.

Three people aboard a medical helicopter were killed when the aircraft crashed in rural Mississippi, officials said.

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday identified the two health care workers and a pilot who all died in the crash of a medical helicopter in a wooded area of Mississippi.

UMMC Center Vice Chancellor LouAnn Woodward stated in a press conference Monday that the pilot was an employee of the Denton, Texas-based company, while the other two on board were UMMC employees.

A medical helicopter crash in Madison County, Miss., on Monday, March 10, has claimed the lives of all three people on board. The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) identified the deceased as Dustin Pope, 35, of Philadelphia, Miss.; Jakob Kindt, 37, of Tupelo, Miss.; and Cal Wesolowski, 62, of Starkville, Miss., on Tuesday, March 11.

Officials with the University of Medical Center have identified victims killed in Monday afternoon's medical helicopter crash.