1 year after medical helicopter crash in Sacramento, family honors flight nurse’s legacy

One year after Suzie Smith was killed in a medical helicopter crash, her family is still grappling with the loss of a woman they say held their family together.

Smith was a veteran flight nurse whose career spanned five decades. Her family remembers her not only for her work caring for patients, but for the kindness she showed to everyone around her.

Her son, Gabe Smith, described his mother as tempered, tender and tough — someone who could bend and not break…

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