Medical plane crashes in Colorado

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• Oct 6, 2007

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3 dead, on their way to pick up a patient.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14278130/detail.html

 

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Thanks for the article Marthatex. The accident it such a tragedy.
My cousin in law flies on a medivac in Tenn. Her medical helicopter has had a few close calls.

 

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Sad..

 

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philamena said:

Thanks for the article Marthatex. The accident it such a tragedy.
My cousin in law flies on a medivac in Tenn. Her medical helicopter has had a few close calls.

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YOu're right; I think they risk their lives to a certain extent going to get patients, or delivering organs, etc.

I seem to remember another medical plane crashing recently? Wasn't it just a few months ago?

 

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I think IIRC this is the 2nd medivac to crash within the past couple of months. I don't remember where the other was, but it went down picking up or delivering organs for transplant.

 

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CaliKid said:

I think IIRC this is the 2nd medivac to crash within the past couple of months. I don't remember where the other was, but it went down picking up or delivering organs for transplant.

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I remember - was that Michigan, Minnesota or somewhere?

 

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• Oct 10, 2007

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it is very risky. i know one girl who has said that one time they almost hit a radio tower... aren't those supposed to be lit up?!?!!? mostly in poor weather and poor visibility. if you get stuck out there... it is bad.

scary!

 

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Marthatex said:

I remember - was that Michigan, Minnesota or somewhere?

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It was a transplant team from the University of Michigan Hospital picking up donor organs in Milwaukee. They went down in Lake Michigan. So sad.

 

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Awe, that is so sad. What a tragedy.

 

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I have a friend in Alaska who is a medivac nurse up there. They have to fly to Washington with the worst cases. She has told me that they have had to land a few times due to trouble.