Two people were killed and one injured Thursday evening when a medical helicopter crashed in a pasture about four miles southeast of Kingfisher, officials said.

Helicopter crash near Kingfisher kills two It was an EagleMed flight, said Oklahoma Highway Patrol Sgt. Denise Robinson. She said three people were aboard the helicopter.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the helicopter left Oklahoma City's Integris Baptist Medical Center and was on its way to a hospital in Okeene when it crashed about 7:30 p.m.

Kingfisher Mayor Jack Stuteville said the helicopter crashed and burned in a grass pasture just south of his farm.

He said the helicopter and two male victims were already “beyond recognition” by the time he arrived at the crash about 7:45 p.m. He said the fire was mostly out.

“It was my farmhand that called me. He was across the creek and saw it go down and he called me and so I called 911 and headed out there,” Stuteville said. “He said he just saw this helicopter and it was swirling over the creek and out of control. And he said, ‘I heard it hit and then saw smoke.'”

He said the survivor — a man — was conscious and 50 yards away from the crash by a fence. “He had to have been thrown out,” the mayor said.

Lunsford said the injured person was flown to Oklahoma City on another medical helicopter.

The names of the victims were not released Thursday night.

“It is early. Next of kins have not been made. It's a highly sensitive situation,” said Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman Capt. Chris West.

Towering power lines can be seen close to the crash site. It was not known Thursday if the lines had any role in the crash.

The Eurocopter AS350 helicopter is registered to EagleMed LLC in Wichita, Kan., according to FAA records. An EagleMed spokesman didn't immediately return a call seeking comment late Thursday.

In the last year in the United States, there have been two other fatal crashes of Eurocopter medical helicopters, FAA records show. In March, a pilot and two flight nurses died when the helicopter crashed during a thunderstorm in Tennessee. In September, a pilot, flight nurse and paramedic were killed when the helicopter crashed and burned in a rain storm in South Carolina.

Integris Baptist spokeswoman Brooke Cayot said the hospital contracts with EagleMed for its medical flight services.

“They are not our employees, but it is our pain anytime something like this happens,” Cayot said.

A woman answering the phone at Okeene Municipal Hospital said she didn't have any information about the crash.

Investigators with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were headed to the crash site, Lunsford said.

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