Friday, October 5, 2007

PLN 8

Today i while i was rummaging through the usual blogs, i came across an interesting blog tittled Three Dead in air-ambulance crash. As i read the blog it came to be an almost terrifying article, i continued through the article and it stated that at 2:11am Friday morning an emergency helicopter had toking flight for a rescue mission, headed for Alamosa, Colorado. The weather had been horrible flying weather so it was automatically a dangerous mission, it had been raining and the clouds were at low elevation. As it headed for Alamosa it had "lost control" and crashed killing three people on board, this included: a doctor, flight nurse, and paramedic. That's when it hit me "Who was flying the helicopter?". Apparently one of the three people on board had also been flying the helicopter, which made me think was this person suited for a high risked mission flight? As i pondered for a little while i thought, maybe pilots aren't getting enough training these days. If their not suited for un-expected weather then they definitely shouldn't be flying. Currently i think that anyone who is a pilot of any type of aircraft should be required to do more then the minimum to be able to fly. This is because if aircraft personnel aren't properly trained to fly in any condition they are risking many lives of the people on board and their selves.

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