Flight for Life - Dillon, CO Crash

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No good words for when the rescuers become the victims. Sigh.

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As a partner in an air ambulance company, I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of a fellow medevac pilot.

So others may live, we fly.

God bless, and fly safe.
 
Never good ,another sad day in the medivac community.
 
Sad day for the Flight for Life family. When I first heard about the accident i wondered if I would know anyone in the crew. It's been about 10 years since I flew the fixed-wing version. Patrick had been there a long time and I remember him from the times we would transfer the patients from airplane to helicopter. RIP.
 
Zeldman said:
As a partner in an air ambulance company, I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of a fellow medevac pilot.

So others may live, we fly.

God bless, and fly safe.
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Blue skies brother, RIP.


He also was one of the guys who helped other pilots in the union, overall a great dude from what I gather.
 
The Life Flights used to be really dangerous. Time was you were more likely to die of a helicopter crash than your actual injuries. I recall some rules were changed but I don't know if things have gotten any better.
 
steingar said:
The Life Flights used to be really dangerous. Time was you were more likely to die of a helicopter crash than your actual injuries. I recall some rules were changed but I don't know if things have gotten any better.
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Gross exaggeration.
 
Fearless Tower said:
Perhaps, but there is some sad truth behind it and it wasn't that long ago that the medivac flights were coming under some pretty bad scrutiny due to their accident record.
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Well that guy made it flying medevac helo work for like 20 years, and flying combat in nam before that, so I hardly would say you're more likley to die in a medevac crash than from your injuries.

That sounds more like fear mongering than facts :mad:
 
James331 said:
Well that guy made it flying medevac helo work for like 20 years, and flying combat in nam before that, so I hardly would say you're more likley to die in a medevac crash than from your injuries.

That sounds more like fear mongering than facts :mad:
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I am not (and I don't think Steingar is either) making any judgements about the pilot involved. Simply pointing out that the Medivac helo industry was under quite a bit of scrutiny from the FAA and NTSB for its safety record a few years ago. Nothing more or less.
 
Fearless Tower said:
I am not (and I don't think Steingar is either) making any judgements about the pilot involved. Simply pointing out that the Medivac helo industry was under quite a bit of scrutiny from the FAA and NTSB for its safety record a few years ago. Nothing more or less.
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Yes it has, and it's still evolving.
 
Fearless Tower said:
I am not (and I don't think Steingar is either) making any judgements about the pilot involved. Simply pointing out that the Medivac helo industry was under quite a bit of scrutiny from the FAA and NTSB for its safety record a few years ago. Nothing more or less.
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I agree with that, HEMS has, and still is, having safety improvements implemented, this could have been expressed without saying something like "Time was you were more likely to die of a helicopter crash than your actual injuries" , that's not a very intelligent or respectful statement, especially in a thread like this IMO
 
James331 said:
, that's not a very intelligent or respectful statement, especially in a thread like this IMO
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Shall we go back and start linking all of the "not a very intelligent or respectful statements" you've made time and time again in various threads? :rolleyes:

You're being a bit pompous here.
 
27 years flying for the same outfit... and a bronze star and Purple Heart flying for a different outfit prior.
 
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