Article updated: 12/12/2012 9:28 AM

Medical helicopter hit weather before crash

Three killed in crash in northern Illinois

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Flight nurse Karen Hollis, 48. Hollis was one of three people killed when a Rockford Medical Center REACT helicopter crashed Monday night, Dec. 10, 2012, in a field near Rochelle, Ill., while traveling between two northern Illinois hospitals. No patients were aboard when the helicopter went down.

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Flight nurse Jim Dillow, 40. Dillow was one of three people killed when a Rockford Medical Center REACT helicopter crashed Monday night, Dec. 10, 2012, in a field near Rochelle, Ill., while traveling between two northern Illinois hospitals.

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Medical helicopter pilot Andy Olesen, 65. Olesen was one of three people killed when a Rockford Medical Center REACT helicopter crashed Monday night, Dec. 10, 2012, in a field near Rochelle, Ill., while traveling between two northern Illinois hospitals. No patients were aboard when the helicopter went down.

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A medical helicopter pilot hit bad weather and was trying to return to the hospital hangar shortly before the aircraft crashed into a northern Illinois field, killing him and two nurses, authorities said Tuesday.