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...crash was a tragedy. It was not a surprise. Helicopter ambulances were a huge step forward in trauma care when the industry started in the early 1970s. But even as the fleet more than tripled in size, from 200 helicopters in 1988 to around 665 today, safety problems festered. On average, five EMS helicopters crashed every year between 1988 and 1997, according to new research by Dr. Ira Blumen, director of the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network. The average has doubled to more than 12 crashes per year since 1998. The past 15 months have been the deadliest yet: there...
These troubles are not new. The National Transportation Safety Board first investigated the medical-helicopter industry's crash epidemic in 1988. It found that low visibility, often caused by bad weather, accounted for 61% of all crashes. "Weather-related accidents are the most common and the most serious type of accident experienced by EMS helicopters," the report found, "and are also the most easily prevented...
However, not much prevention has happened since 1988. Variations on a simple chain reaction - where pilots fly without instruments in low visibility or at night, lose their bearings or make bad decisions, and crash into terrain - caused 80% of all helicopter-ambulance accidents reviewed by the Congressional Research Service in 2006. "The same accidents keep happening over and over," says Stacey Friedman, founder of Safemedflight.org, which advocates for crash victims' families. Her sister Erin Reed was a nurse who died in a medical-helicopter crash in Puget Sound...
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