5. June 2007 • Juliew
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From the University of Michigan Health System:
At approximately 5:50 p.m. ET today (June 4), the University of Michigan Health System was notified that a Cessna jet leased by its U-M Survival Flight air ambulance program had crashed into Lake Michigan.
The UM web site lists the following names of the four UM employees and two air pilots who were aboard. A search for survivors is continuing.
- David Ashburn, M.D., a UM fellow (physician-in-training) in cardiothoracic surgery
- Richard Chenault II, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
- Dennis Hoyes, a Marlin air pilot
- Richard Lapensee, a transplant donation specialist with the U-M Transplant Program
- Bill Serra, a Marlin air pilot
- Martinus (Martin) Spoor, M.D., a cardiac surgeon who had been on the U-M faculty since 2003
More information is available here.
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Richard Lapensee was also a 14 year veteran of the Ypsilanti Fire Department.
—Brian Jun. 5 '07 - 05:46PM #