CONWAY, S.C. (AP) -- More than 1,500 people attended a service for three medical helicopter crew members killed in a crash near the South Carolina coast.
Multiple media outlets reported the service Sunday afternoon at Coastal Carolina University in Conway included poems, songs and helicopter fly-overs.
Those killed in the Sept. 25 crash were the pilot, 45-year-old Patrick Walters of Murrells Inlet, 42-year-old nurse Diana Conner of Florence and 39-year-old medic Randolph Claxton Dove of Bladenboro, N.C.
They had delivered a patient to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and were returning to Conway when they diverted to the Georgetown County Airport because of bad weather. They crashed about a mile from the airport.
Bob Peiser of Omniflight says all three were professional, dedicated and compassionate.
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