Fatal Flights / Fatal helicopter crashes

Working on a medical helicopter is the second most dangerous job in America, behind only commercial fishing. In the past two years alone, medical helicopters have plunged into pitch-black oceans, plummeted to the ground after losing their rotor blades and collided in clear blue desert skies.

Explore trends, events and crashes since 1980

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 09:34.

PUTHENTHOPE พูดว่า:The total 17018 itself was a wrong collucatian. Could you please add those five numbers (grade 3 students could laugh) before blaming anyone and finding scapegoats, 08:41

Submitted by ATP on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 15:58.

Sad to see all of those lives laid out in a graph like that and then to see that back, way back in February 29, 1988 the NTSB made 19 recommendations and here we are over 20 years later still fight the same battle and the FAA remains unwilling to step up and require many things that would help. The bigger shame is that likely one of the reason the Feds don't step up is they get lobby'd by representatives of the larger company's who main goal is maximizing profits.

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 15:11.

This graph puts things (for me) into an amazing perspective. Only 1 year, 1990 in the last 29 years have we gone without a fatal HEMS accident. I think every crew should go through each accident detail and find the common elements in an overwhelming majority of them. Great starting point for discussion and learning.