That's kind of ironic, don't you think?

Oh no...

The desert seems to eat a lot of these choppers for some reason.

Geez- this is the THIRD crash in the last month in AZ of medical helicopters.
this is getting really sad.

Yikes. That's horrible.

cazman:The desert seems to eat a lot of these choppers for some reason.

This is Flagstaff:


NOT in a desert.

Is there a kind of crash that doesn't result in a collision?
Can two helicopters collide and not be in midair?

Ironic tag killed in wreckage.

He says all three people on one of the choppers were killed. Those victims include a patient and the pilot.



Damn. I was hoping that the patient and pilot out of all three that were killed would've lived.

Begoggle:Can two helicopters collide and not be in midair?

Yes

At least medical technicians are already at the site.

Is it too early to say that they are doing it wrong?

Is it just me, or does it seem that a lot of helicopters crash in Arizona?

This is just awful.

Metaluna Mutant:At least medical technicians are already at the site.

Yeah, they're all over it.

Holy shiat.

I wonder how that happened. Air traffic controller farked up?

oops, I should have refreshed before I asked that question...

I guess Flagstaff is a little short on medical helecopters now.

[IRONIC] tag had a mid-air collision with [SCARY]?

Im a college kid in Flagstaff. This happened about 1/8th of a mile from my house. It started a wild fire at the end of our street behind the houses. One of my room mates heard some weird shiat earlier but we didnt know it was helicopters crashing.

My mom works in an office building overlooking the site of the news helicopter collision and crash last year.

N A U Lumberjacks
word

my mom flys on medical helicopters so I'm not getting a kick out of these replys.

I guess neither of them was chicken.

That's what you get when you let big pharmaceuticals know you've found the cure to cancer. Suck it, Wake Forest scientists.

Talk about bad luck....

ecmoRandomNumbers:NOT in a desert.

So those folks that call it high desert country have been wrong all these years? I know Flagstaff measures snow in feet during the winter, I've been there many times.....but it's still high desert.

Do helicopters have collision detectors like passenger planes do ?

Where will they bury the survivors?

Coronach:
Damn. I was hoping that the patient and pilot out of all three that were killed would've lived.

Well, it would make sense if the helicopter crashed without a pilot. Maybe he left it in gear.


/That still sucks though.

Near miss

/RIP George

looks like someone learned not to abuse the Irony tag

I heard some of the people on board the chopper were actually injured before the crash.

I smell conspiracy.

We got about 14 feet of snow from december to march in the city this winter. we average 22 inches of rain a year. Desert? not so much.

One of my friends is a fire fighter up in flag and he was just called up like ten minutes ago to assist on the crash site cuz it started a fire. Yesterday he complained that the fire season was weak and he didnt get many overtime hours. Today he went hiking and missed the first shift fighting this guy.

Nobody does mid-air helicopter crashes like Arizona.

/flex

cazman:The desert seems to eat a lot of these choppers for some reason.

Brownouts, probably.

soze:Metaluna Mutant:At least medical technicians are already at the site.

Yeah, they're all over it.

so wrong, so very very wrong

I choked on my gum, thanks a lot

wrong
wrong
funny
I mean wrong

Awful.

I was hiking today in Flag and heard/felt this *BOOM*. My first thought was, "That can't be good." Then I started thinking, "Too big for a handgun or rifle... maybe a shotgun... or a canon. It IS Sunday and this IS Arizona, probably a canon."

I lay out nude in Phoenix and within minutes helicopters are flying by low and slow...

/no pic in profile

They need to heavily regulate HEMS if they are going to reduce the accidents that are piling up. Unfortunately it's a competitive business with a bottom-line that is often granted to the lowest bidder.

EMS ships will keep crashing left and right until the operators are required by law to fly twin-engine ships, with dual-pilots, with 5000 hour minimums each, NVG-equipped, and a minimum of a hundred hours IFR simulator refresher/training time per year.

Begoggle:Is there a kind of crash that doesn't result in a collision?
Can two helicopters collide and not be in midair?

Stop it. Your logic just hurt my head.

karmichild:I lay out nude in Phoenix and within minutes helicopters are flying by low and slow...

That is the tempo.

Seriously though, I'm suprised you can walk outside at all in Phoenix this time of year. I passed through last July 3rd and it was like 120 outside.

Drove up to Falgstaff and it was only 83.

I prefer Flagstaff.

I came here for the Dr. Romano references.

/Leaves, disappointed...

atlanta_ufo:Do helicopters have collision detectors like passenger planes do ?

Not in your run-of-the-mill EMS/Utility helicopter.

/Someone had to do it

ecmoRandomNumbers:cazman:The desert seems to eat a lot of these choppers for some reason.

This is Flagstaff:


NOT in a desert.

By Seattle's comparison it is. You're arid high country like Reno. It's not 118 degrees but still damn dry.

FTA: He wasn't sure whether the other casualties involved any people on the ground. He does not know what caused the collision.

I'm thinking it was the collision. How it was two helicopters. Again from what I hear, will make the NTSB nuts.

floppymcjoe:/Someone had to do it

that bit was running through my mind as soon as I started reading the article

karmichild:I was hiking today in Flag and heard/felt this *BOOM*. My first thought was, "That can't be good." Then I started thinking, "Too big for a handgun or rifle... maybe a shotgun... or a canon. It IS Sunday and this IS Arizona, probably a canon."

I lay out nude in Phoenix and within minutes helicopters are flying by low and slow...

/no pic in profile

OK. How about a my space page? Or are you one of those "I'm 350 pounds and beautiful" nudists? If so, nevermind...

floppymcjoe:/Someone had to do it

snort.

Used to fly in and out of Flag at half the speed of smell.

/Bad week for EMS heli guys here in Arizona.

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