Overview
- Family, first responders and community members escorted Smith in a ceremonial flight from Sacramento to Red Bluff, followed by a ground procession to a Palo Cedro funeral home.
- Smith’s family says they will create the Our Angel that Flies Foundation to support mission work and nursing scholarships in her name.
- Pilot Chad Millward and flight paramedic Margaret “DeDe” Davis remain hospitalized in critical condition at UC Davis Medical Center, and officials have said they are expected to survive.
- The REACH helicopter crashed onto eastbound Highway 50 on Oct. 6 shortly after departing UC Davis Medical Center following a patient drop-off, and no patient was aboard.
- The FAA and NTSB, working with the California Highway Patrol, have opened an investigation and have not identified a cause, as bystanders and firefighters described lifting wreckage to free a trapped crew member.