Thomas Farquhar

The patient was 66-year-old Marilyn Lavon Bean, traveling with her 41-year-old son Sergio Wayne Lattimore, both of Bermuda.

The four Canadian crew, with Latitude Air Ambulance of Hamilton, Ontario, were Captain Philip Childerhose, First Officer Thomas Farquhar, Flight Nurse Sarah Patton, and Respiratory Therapist Jalene Weir.

Their company called Childerhose a man of great integrity, Farquhar a gentle giant, Patton bright and joyful and devoted to helping others, and Weir someone with an incredible ability to care for people.

Company President Peter Beil said they had dedicated themselves to helping people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives, and that is what they were doing aboard the aircraft they called Heartbeat 104.

The U.S. Coast Guard saying the Gulfstream jet carried four Canadians employed by Latitude Air Ambulance, along with a Bermudian patient and a relative.

The Canadian crew were identified as Captain Philip Chaleros, First Officer Thomas Farquhar, Flight Nurse Sarah Patton, and Respiratory Therapist Jolene Weir.

The medical transport crew was flying a 66-year-old woman and her 41-year-old son from Bermuda to Boston when the pilot reported electrical problems and declared an emergency before losing contact with air traffic control just off Nantucket.

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