Town of Medary, La Crosse County: Randy Viner and his wife Deborah were in bed just before 11 Saturday night when Deborah heard a loud crash coming from the woods behind their home. “It sounded like thunder, but I’m thinking why is it thundering because it’s not raining that hard out?”
The next morning firefighters found the missing Med Flight helicopter a quarter-mile from their home.
The helicopter took off from the airport about five miles to the west of the Keil Coulee valley. It crashed into the trees as it came over the ridge, slid down the slope, and came to a rest against some trees -about halfway down the valley.