40 years, 31,000 patients and one mission: MAMA keeps flying

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — John Carrico still remembers his first flight with Mountain Area Medical Airlift.

It was a car wreck in Transylvania County, where Carrico lives.

Twelve years later, he has flown on roughly 1,100 patient flights and has seen just about every kind of emergency Western North Carolina can throw at a medical helicopter crew…

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