Snow showers led to helicopter crash that killed Pa. doctor: NTSB

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Snow showers led to helicopter crash that killed Pa. doctor: NTSB
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The anesthesiologist frequently flew himself from his Lehigh Valley home to work near the New York border.

that killed a Lehigh Valley doctor in a remote area of Pennsylvania, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its final report on the crash., of Upper Saucon Township, was piloting the four-seat Robinson R44 helicopter that departed the night of April 22 from Queen City Airport in Allentown and was heading to Bradford County Airport in Towanda.near Forkston, Pa.

Kansara, an anesthesiologist, frequently flew himself from his Lehigh Valley home to work at the Guthrie health network’s hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, on the New York state border. The NTSB report states the crash was caused by the pilot’s inadequate preflight weather planning; when Kansara hit a band of snow showers that night, it led to spatial disorientation and the crash into trees and terrain in a remote wooded area.The board said the National Weather Service in Binghamton’s forecast that evening included lake-effect snow showers moving across the region.

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