Pilot Dies in Crash; Nurse Critically Hurt
A pilot was killed and a nurse was critically injured Monday when their plane crashed on the way home from a mission to recover donated organs from a dead boy.
The Cessna twin-engine plane crashed short of a foggy runway at the Selma Airport around 4 a.m., officials said.
The pilot, Charles Gordon Wiswell, 78, of San Luis Obispo was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Fresno County coroner’s office.
Lisa Barnes, 36, who was a coordinator for the California Transplant Donor Network, was drifting in and out of consciousness when emergency workers arrived, said Dan Cervantes of the Fresno sheriff’s office.
Barnes was reported to be in critical condition at University Medical Center in Fresno.
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