White Bird
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http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/Crews-Responding-to-Reported-Plane-Crash-282063131.html
R.I.P to the lost soul
R.I.P to the lost soul
What is going on this year? Craziness.. RIP , so sad.
What is going on this year?
here's the instructor's web page.....
Only been flying 2 years and I recall about this time last year that planes seemed to be falling out of the sky.
I guess better weather, more people flying, odds go up
Waitaminit….
They airlifted the student pilot because his ankle was sprained?
Somehow, I don't believe that.
Yup......... And the ever present glitch called GRAVITY....... Wins every time..
The crash was in the middle of a mountainous national forest nowhere near roads for an ambulance and nowhere near a trauma center. Practicality, not necessity.
nitpick: I think Voyager I & II are beating gravity....at least locally...
Agreed... Those are two of my favorite missions.... Built way back when NASA had no idea of the extremes of deep space flight... And they hit a home run.....
Keep on truckin.....
Nope, not beating gravity. Just not aiming at Earth. Gravity is an infinite-range force.
Those probes have been in free-fall for many years. The only force that acts on them is gravity.
NASA had a damn good idea about the "extremes of deep space flight" in the late 70s. That's why they worked. It's also why there haven't been any manned missions.
Trauma center for a sprained ankle? Really?
Mechanism of injury. Being in a crash that has significant mechanism (think impact) with significant potential for trauma gets is grounds for more than visit to a local clinic. A second factor in the trauma protocols is always injuries to other parties in involved. In addition to the significant mechanism, the person sitting 6 inches to left was killed.
Basically what I'm getting at here is the airlift and trauma center are perfectly normal standard protocol for what happened here.
Waitaminit….
They airlifted the student pilot because his ankle was sprained?
Somehow, I don't believe that.
It's been a bad week. We just had a Cessna 140 crash over the weekend in perfect conditions here. No one knows why (yet), and two died.
Can't vouch for the Virginia protocols, but I am quite well versed in the MD ones. Any time there is apparent multisystem trauma it goes to one of the trauma centers: suspected head injury or abdominal injury coupled with what might be a fracture qualifies. Better to be liberal in the use. I've seen the ugly opposite side of things. Had a couple of kids in a roll a jacked up compact pickup truck (these things were popular back when I was a paramedic). One kid pretty banged up, bad weather so no helicopter available to Shockarama so we loaded him in our box and hauled ass to the regional trauma center. His buddy who was up and running around by the time we got to the scene we put in the front seat. He checked out fine at the scene (even though the signs were there, the starburst crack where he had hit the windshield) and he was fortunate his buddy went to the TC since we took him along in the front seat. I wheeled him in to the ER in a wheelchair (he was still pretty much OK) but I found out later he ended up critical with closed head trauma.
I'm not ever going to fault the medical personnel for escalating cases any more than the emergency equipment rolling at the drop of a hat at the airport (after training with the BWI fire crews, I find that they have 30 seconds from the alarm until they start flowing foam on the wreck if they want a prayer of being able to save people in a post-crash/landing fire.
Waitaminit….
They airlifted the student pilot because his ankle was sprained?
Somehow, I don't believe that.
It's been a bad week. We just had a Cessna 140 crash over the weekend in perfect conditions here. No one knows why (yet), and two died.
I don't recall the article saying he was airlifted just said transported. But regardless better safe than sorry.
What gets me in these situations is, two people sitting literally inches from each other one ends up dead and one has a sprained ankle.