• A patient and three crew members onboard a North Carolina medical helicopter that crashed near the state border with Georgia have managed to survive despite the aircraft suffering “severe damage,” officials say.
• The crash in Burningtown, west of the Macon County Airport, happened Thursday night around 7 p.m.
• “The aircraft was transporting a patient and three crew members and was enroute from a medical facility in Murphy, N.C. to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.,” Macon County Emergency Services said in a statement.

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