Medical Chopper down, 3 dead

[CK]

I am very familiar with the TRP2 crash, and can't say I disagree with you. However I fairly certain there was nobody else lined up to do it that night.

There is always an ambulance lined up. The one patient lived through the helicopter crash, there is no reason she wouldn't have lived through the ambulance ride there.

The Maryland State PD bird was 2 pilot, and it crashed too.

Two pilot may be safer, but there's two three things with many medevacs that have to be factored in with a second pilot:

MD crash was single pilot. They are going to two pilot in the AW139 now.

Alex.

 

[MikeD]

MD crash was single pilot. They are going to two pilot in the AW139 now.

Alex.

Thats right. I was thinking of another accident.

A state agency can likely afford to go two pilot. An EMS operator, due both to cost as well as equipment, generally can't.

 

[dustoff17]

I am very familiar with the TRP2 crash, and can't say I disagree with you. However I fairly certain there was nobody else lined up to do it that night.

There was another company that turned donw this mission. AND the crew had the option to go into the clouds and operate IFR. Chose to scud run and it trees. Can carry twelve pilots and if they are of this same mind-set, you'll get the same result. They killed others.

The latest crash in OK is being attributed to a hot-dogging pilot. Med crew thought it was fun and he had done this same stuff a lot. Killed a nusre and injured another.

Med crew are an intergral part of the crew. They have the power to cancel a mission too. But there is pressure to accept a mission. I never asked who (age, injury, etc) the patient was. Thought it would cloud my judgement. As I parent I know that I would always want to try if it were a child - maybe when I shouldn't.