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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:06:00 -0800
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- I saw an interesting story on last night's CBC News out of Toronto
- about an incident with Canada's air ambulance system. Seems an
- individual had a snowmobile accident in a northern part of Canada
- and needed to be air-evaced from the hospital he was in down to
- Thunder Bay. Story goes that a helicopter made the trek up to his
- location (after 3 hours), circled the airport, and then returned
- to its home base (no mention of why.) A few hours later a plane
- did successfully make the trip and then the story dwells on the
- complaints that the patient sat unattended to for hours in the
- hospital so they had to amputate his leg.
-
- Skipping the details about that, we then get to the end of the
- story and to the part where the newcaster asks the reporter
- questions at the end of the tape (are we supposed to think these
- are impromptu?) Anyways the question is why the helicopter did
- not land... "The problem is" that pilots have the final say on
- whether or not to land due to weather conditions (I fail to see
- the problem?) It seems that helicopters in Canada "do not have
- altimeters, devices which tell the pilot how high he is off
- of the ground" and would enable the helicopter to "land on runways
- even if weather conditions prevented the pilot from seeing the
- ground." Wow. Those are some altimeters...
-
- Rob
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