A medical transport helicopter crashed Monday in Mississippi, while carrying two hospital workers and a pilot, officials said.

Authorities on Tuesday identified the two health care workers and a pilot who all died in the crash of a medical helicopter in a wooded area of Mississippi

Three people aboard a medical helicopter were killed when the aircraft crashed in rural Mississippi, officials said.

A pilot and two crew members were aboard the helicopter, which was not carrying any patients when it plunged into the woods outside Jackson, Miss.