Investigators believe Freudenberg engaged in an extensive text conversation with a colleague about dinner plans while he was conducting mandatory pre-flight checks of his helicopter.
Because of those distractions, Freudenberg missed two opportunities to detect that his helicopter did not have sufficient fuel for his mission, investigators said.
When Freudenberg finally noticed his fuel was low, he was half-way through the first leg of his flight.
He arrived at the hospital, picked up the patient, and looked for an alternate, closer destination to refuel. But his 13-minute stop was again disrupted by a private text conversation, and he took off after miscalculating that he could reach his destination.
The LifeNet helicopter ran out of fuel a mile short of the destination — within sight of the Midwest National Air Center.
The copter crashed into a pasture in mere seconds, killing Freudenberg, the patient he was transporting, and two medical personnel.
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Pilot texting a factor in deadly copter crash - CNN.com
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