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One person was killed and two others suffered critical injuries after a Las Vegas tour bus headed to Grand Canyon West crashed Friday afternoon near Dolan Springs, according to Mohave County sheriff s officials.
The crash was reported about 12:20 p.m. near Milepost 5 on Diamond Bar Road, sheriff s officials said in a news release. The bus, with 48 passengers on board including the driver, rolled and landed on its side.
One passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. The two critically injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals.
“It was a heavily damaged bus, he slid down the road quite a ways, so there was a lot of wreckage,” Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District Chief Tim Bonney told The Associated Press. Bonney was in the first fire unit that responded to the crash about 15 minutes after it happened. “Just to put it in perspective, on a scale of zero to 10, an eight.”
A Las Vegas-based tour bus heading to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others, authorities said.
MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. A Las Vegas-based tour bus heading to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others. A total of 44 passengers were transported to the hospital, authorities said.
A spokeswoman for the Mohave County Sher
- January 19, 2021, 10:52 AM
The NTSB has concluded that the probable cause of a Grand Canyon helitour that killed five people on Feb. 10, 2018, was “a loss of tail rotor effectiveness, the pilot’s loss of helicopter control, and collision with terrain during approach to land in gusting, tailwind conditions in an area of potential downdrafts and turbulence.” The Airbus Helicopters EC130B4 operated by Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters crashed at 5:20 p.m. local time in rugged terrain near Quartermaster Canyon on the Hualapai Nation in Arizona, three miles east of the Grand Canyon West Airport. All seven aboard survived the initial impact, but three passengers aboard died in the post-crash fire and another two subsequently died of related injuries. The part-time pilot and one passenger survived with severe injuries.