Media coverage of PHI crash

June 10, 2008

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664

I am appaled at the twist the media is taking with this tragic event.

The memorial service and funerals are not even complete yet and the

media is taking its digs at air medical transport. The way PHI is

being protrayed in the Houston Media makes them appear as a money

hungry corporation only interested in profit. I think that the NTSB

need an opportunity to conclude what happend to Med 12 and the media

needs to stop making uneducated guesses.

June 10, 2008

I expect a little more from ABC13. I am disappointed in the way these

services are being portrayed. Anyone of them would want a helicopter

present in their time of need. Some people are very quick to cast criticism

before they have all the facts. All of the men and women of Aero-medical

service, any public services for that matter, should be honored for their

selfless service to complete strangers. How about praises and a thank you

before a critical finger being pointed? I left a comment of the ABC13

article online, thank you for bringing this news piece into the light.

From: texasems-l [mailto:texasems-l ] On

Behalf Of mpmedics

Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:47 PM

To: texasems-l

Subject: Media coverage of PHI crash

http://abclocal.

<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664>

go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664

I am appaled at the twist the media is taking with this tragic event.

The memorial service and funerals are not even complete yet and the

media is taking its digs at air medical transport. The way PHI is

being protrayed in the Houston Media makes them appear as a money

hungry corporation only interested in profit. I think that the NTSB

need an opportunity to conclude what happend to Med 12 and the media

needs to stop making uneducated guesses.

June 10, 2008

and M,

I understand the emotions and grief we are all experiencing right now.? I myself

knew 2 of the four people on the aircraft.? It was a horrible tragedy...but...we

must not allow this emotion and grief to prevent us from critically analyzing

this issue, this incident, and the other 4 or 5 fatal accidents?in the last few

weeks?so that we can do?as much as possible?to prevent this from happening to

more of our peers and co-workers.?

This ABC13 story presents nothing but FACTS on the air medical industry.? It

doesn't present PHI any worse than any other air med company...they are only

mentioned 3 times in the article, 1 identifying them as the company that lost an

aircraft, one stating they were putting night-vision goggles on even before

LifeFlight, and one stating they limit the hours a pilot can fly...they do

expose the facts about the dangers and increasing crash numbers for this

industry, which paints us all (ground and air) in a negative light.

I personally am sickened by all of this.? I long have been advocating safer

ground ambulances because we are killing ourselves in horribly high numbers

every week in ambulances...but similarly, the stupidity and high adrenaline

excuses for sending patients on helicopters when they are not needed?must be

de-bunked, steps to making air-medical flights safer must stop being fought by

our industry,?and we as an INDUSTRY need to stop accepting these things

as?okay.? 70% of flights are for inter-facility transfers and horribly high

numbers of scene flights are walking out of the hospital the same day...we can;

no we?MUST do better than this.

I would hate to think that the legacy this tragedy and loss of 3 of our

co-workers had was to continue to fly helicopters into the ground because we are

not willing to critically and objectively look at what we all are doing.?

Instead, while the emotions are on edge and the nerve endings hot and hurting,

we need to begin debreading this wound and examine what we are all doing in

regards to air transport.? We need to?use the inertia of this event to DRIVE

change and drive it now.? If not, in 2 or 3 weeks, a couple of months, or next

year, we will still be doing the same thing and we possibly will be mourning the

loss of even more friends and co-workers.

God Speed PHI-12

Dudley?

Media coverage of PHI crash

http://abclocal.

<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664>

go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664

I am appaled at the twist the media is taking with this tragic event.

The memorial service and funerals are not even complete yet and the

media is taking its digs at air medical transport. The way PHI is

being protrayed in the Houston Media makes them appear as a money

hungry corporation only interested in profit. I think that the NTSB

need an opportunity to conclude what happend to Med 12 and the media

needs to stop making uneducated guesses.

June 10, 2008

The national media is on this (after the U of W crash-but 4 crashes in 3

weeks gets everybody's attention). There finally might be some pressure on

the FAA to do something besides fiddle while Rome burns. We owe it to the

spirits of the departed to assure nobody else has to undergo a similar fate.

Regardless, they will always be heroes for the work they did and the

sacrifice they made.

From: texasems-l [mailto:texasems-l ] On

Behalf Of THEDUDMAN@...

Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:49 PM

To: texasems-l

Subject: Re: Media coverage of PHI crash

and M,

I understand the emotions and grief we are all experiencing right now.? I

myself knew 2 of the four people on the aircraft.? It was a horrible

tragedy...but...we must not allow this emotion and grief to prevent us from

critically analyzing this issue, this incident, and the other 4 or 5 fatal

accidents?in the last few weeks?so that we can do?as much as possible?to

prevent this from happening to more of our peers and co-workers.?

This ABC13 story presents nothing but FACTS on the air medical industry.? It

doesn't present PHI any worse than any other air med company...they are only

mentioned 3 times in the article, 1 identifying them as the company that

lost an aircraft, one stating they were putting night-vision goggles on even

before LifeFlight, and one stating they limit the hours a pilot can

fly...they do expose the facts about the dangers and increasing crash

numbers for this industry, which paints us all (ground and air) in a

negative light.

I personally am sickened by all of this.? I long have been advocating safer

ground ambulances because we are killing ourselves in horribly high numbers

every week in ambulances...but similarly, the stupidity and high adrenaline

excuses for sending patients on helicopters when they are not needed?must be

de-bunked, steps to making air-medical flights safer must stop being fought

by our industry,?and we as an INDUSTRY need to stop accepting these things

as?okay.? 70% of flights are for inter-facility transfers and horribly high

numbers of scene flights are walking out of the hospital the same day...we

can; no we?MUST do better than this.

I would hate to think that the legacy this tragedy and loss of 3 of our

co-workers had was to continue to fly helicopters into the ground because we

are not willing to critically and objectively look at what we all are

doing.? Instead, while the emotions are on edge and the nerve endings hot

and hurting, we need to begin debreading this wound and examine what we are

all doing in regards to air transport.? We need to?use the inertia of this

event to DRIVE change and drive it now.? If not, in 2 or 3 weeks, a couple

of months, or next year, we will still be doing the same thing and we

possibly will be mourning the loss of even more friends and co-workers.

God Speed PHI-12

Dudley?

Media coverage of PHI crash

http://abclocal.

<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus

<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664>

& id=6195664>

go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus & id=6195664

I am appaled at the twist the media is taking with this tragic event.

The memorial service and funerals are not even complete yet and the

media is taking its digs at air medical transport. The way PHI is

being protrayed in the Houston Media makes them appear as a money

hungry corporation only interested in profit. I think that the NTSB

need an opportunity to conclude what happend to Med 12 and the media

needs to stop making uneducated guesses.

June 10, 2008

Does anybody know of any recent outcome studies on patients that are

transported by helicopters?

_____

From: texasems-l [mailto:texasems-l ] On

Behalf Of jsegner

Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:41 PM

To: texasems-l

Subject: RE: Media coverage of PHI crash