The eruption of EMS helicopter crashes in the U.S. - Causes and Prevention

This is an unexpected catastrophe happening on the road by the horrific crash scenes in the U.S. on the way to the hospital to EMS helicopters. Helicopter crash, many of the prisoners killed in an unacceptable level. If you have been injured in Southern California, whether Long Beach, Big Bear, Laguna Beach, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Orange, and Yorba Linda in Orange County, and Carlsbad, Oceanside, La Jolla, Del Mar, San Marcos, Vista and Escondido in San Diego, CA, or in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indio, Coachella, Yucca Valley, or some remote area and mountainous, and it is dark or in bad weather, your chances of survival The journey of the hospital may be better in an ambulance.

Died as a result of helicopter crashes in the U.S. were at record highs and the National Transportation Safety Board has been examining only is behind this rash of crashes Emergency Medical Services and police helicopters.

Over the past 12 months, 31 people died in eight arrests. EMS helicopter crashes in the United States has one of the most dangerous of 'air and one of the highest accident rates for aircraft accidents become. This year alone, 24 people have died on medical airlifts.

A study of EMS helicopter crashes 1983-2005 NTSB found that most accidents occurred - forced 77 percent versus 31 percent - if the weather conditions, pilots fly with their instruments rather than outside visual reference. In the dark, 56 percent of fatal crashes were compared with 24 percent, if the flight is not in the dark.

This study identified 29 of those 55 accidents could be avoided. A number of security problems have been identified. Consequently, in 2006, the NTSB issues a special report on the safety These flights to accident scenes and address searched computer equipment safety, awareness of the land and warning systems (TAWS) (also known as the technology is to avoid terrain was called), will alert the pilots if They were flying too close to shore.

It 'was reported that despite some progress has been made, none of the NTSB recommendations of this report be fully implemented.

All but two of the last eight deaths EMS were at night or in bad weather.
In comparison, the fatality rate as it is for nothing ambulance helicopters.

Now the U. S. House of Representatives and the Senate is considering legislation to these security issues and place higher standards for the industry.

Until this situation has improved, the helicopter pilots are environmental management systems as well as police and medical staff to consider the terrain, the condition of the victims at the scene, the dangerousness of the situation, and weather conditions and darkness in determining whether the victims in a hospital in an ambulance or take risks you can justify the use of a rescue helicopter, both for the safety of injury victims and EMS pilots, nurses and paramedics.

Veteran EMS pilots say that the use of night vision devices could improve their security. But because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is obviously a lack of these glasses. Less than one third of the 800 EMS helicopters in the U.S. have the technology for night vision. The waiting period for the civil use of glasses to the largest U.S. producer is six to eight months.

News Note - On October 16, 2008, a critical-care helicopter crashed in Aurora, Illinois, killing two crew members, a nurse, and a 1-year-old man while they were in the air and on the way to a hospital in Chicago. The helicopter apparently clipped a guy wire of a radio tower and crashed.

Sebastian Gibson graduated cum laude from UCLA in 1972 and received two law degrees in the United States and the United Kingdom and graduated with an LL.B. magna cum laude from University College, Cardiff in Wales and JD from the University of San Diego School of Law in Southern California.

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