Transplant Team Killed,  Organ Lost in Plane Crash
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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Russian investigators have announced that explosives were found on both planes that crashed with the loss of 90 lives last week, focusing attention on the roles of two dead
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Rescuers recovered the first two bodies from the wreckage of a crashed Brazilian passenger plane in the Amazon jungle on Sunday and reported that none of the 155 people on board had survived, the Brazilian Airforce said.
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_ A plane owned by a NASCAR sports organization crashed while en route to a race today, killing all ten people on board. Federal officials say two pilots and eight passengers died in the crash.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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A man whose lung-transplant operation was aborted after the plane carrying the organs crashed into Lake Michigan this week is recovering after receiving lungs from another donor.
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Crews on all-terrain vehicles yesterday recovered the bodies of all 10 people killed in the crash of a Hendrick Motorsports plane that was carrying family and friends of one of NASCAR's top syndicates.
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An autopsy confirmed that NHL player Serge Zholtok died from heart failure after playing a game this week in Belarus.
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Investigators are to begin an examination of a site where two people died in a collision involving two aircraft.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Two U.S. medical volunteers and   their pilot died on Friday when the small plane in which they   were traveling crashed near Mexico's border with the United   States, a police spokesman said.
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Pancreatic cancer killed William Schunk. Now scientists are using his body to fight back. Within about an hour of his death, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center began collecting the Omaha veteran&#039;s organs as part of a unique &quot;rapid autopsy&quot; program. The goal: To create a library of tissue that could finally point scientists to new ways to diagnose and treat this most lethal of cancers.
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Rescue operation atthe site of an air crash killing all 53 people aboard a commuter plane and one more on the ground on Sunday morning was declared conclusion Tuesday.
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Doctors have amputated the left leg of a co-pilot whose plane crashed on takeoff after turning onto the wrong runway, and he does not remember the accident that killed 49 people, his family said Monday.
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The bodies of five people were found Wednesday in the wreckage of a commuter plane that crashed and burned as it carried doctors and other medical professionals to a conference.
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A small plane crash near the U.S.-Mexico border killed three American medical volunteers, authorities said Saturday.
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A plane owned by the Hendrick Motorsports organization crashed Sunday on its way to a NASCAR race, killing all 10 people aboard, federal officials said.
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The NASCAR community is mourning a tragic loss after a plane crash killed 10 members of a racing dynasty. Federal officials say 8 passengers and two pilots died when the Hendrick Motorsports aircraft went down on its way to a race in Virginia.