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Preliminary NTSB report describes medical helicopter’s ‘near vertical, nose-down descent’ before Drexel Hill crash

The medic on the flight said that the helicopter "rolled inverted, perhaps multiple times," and that he and a nurse were briefly "pinned to the ceiling," according to the report.

A crashed medical helicopter is removed from the scene in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby on Jan. 12, 2022.
A crashed medical helicopter is removed from the scene in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby on Jan. 12, 2022.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer