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EDITOR’S
NOTEBOOK
Own Worst Enemy
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By Andrew Parker
A
s we head into Heli-Expo,
it’s important to again bring
up the subjects of training
and safety. Learning lessons
from the mistakes of others is one of
the most basic ways of improving.
The U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board issued similar rulings
on January 19 involving two helicop-
ter EMS crashes where pilots f lew
into storms at night. The first crash,
which occurred Sept. 25, 2009 near
Georgetown, S.C., involved a Carolina
Life Care Eurocopter AS350B2 oper-
ated by Omniflight Helicopters. Three
people died in the crash, the pilot, a
flight nurse and a flight paramedic.
According to the report, the pilot
decided “to continue the VFR flight
into an area of IMC, which resulted in
the pilot’s spatial disorientation and a
loss of control of the helicopter.”
NTSB noted “inadequate oversight
of the flight by Omniflight’s Opera-
tional Control Center” as a contrib-
uting factor to the accident, which
happened at around 11:30 p.m. as the
crew was headed back from dropping
off a patient.
The second accident took place
on March 25, 2011 near Brownsville,
Tenn. The Hospital Wing Eurocopter
A S350B3, reg istere d to Memphis
Medical Air Center, went down after
heading straight into a quick-develop-
ing weather cell, resulting in the deaths
of the pilot and two flight nurses. The
safety board ruled that attempting to
fly into “adverse weather, resulting in
an encounter with a thunderstorm
with localized IMC, heavy rain and
severe turbulence,” is the probable
cause of the crash.
What’s disturbing is the part of the
report’s narrative that describes the
pilot’s apparent state of mind before
the crash. In a conversation with an
oncoming shift pilot, the pilot alleg-
edly said he “wanted to get the heli-
copter out” after sitting on the helipad
at Jackson-Madison County Gen-
eral Hospital and waiting for the flight
nurses. The shift pilot suggested park-
ing the helicopter, but the active duty
pilot insisted there was enough time
to make it, believing “he had about 18
minutes to beat the storm and return
to home base” while leaving the nurses
behind. The shift pilot later spoke with
one of the flight nurses, who in fact
made it on board and said they were
about 30 seconds from arrival, when
the helicopter went down.
Witnesses reported lighting, thun-
der and “heavy rain bands” in the area
at the time of the accident.
NTSB faults the decision-making
process of the pilot, saying that he
“could have chosen to stay at the hospi-
tal helipad. The pilot, however, decid-
ed to enter the area of weather, despite
the availability of a safer option. Based
on the pilot’s statement to the oncom-
ing pilot about the need to ‘beat the
storm’ and his intention to . . . bring the
helicopter back, he was aware of the
storm and chose to fly into it.”
The report continues by stating the
pilot “made a risky decision to attempt
to outrun a storm in night conditions,
which would enable him to return the
helicopter to its home base and end his
shift there, rather than choosing a safer
alternative of parking the helicopter in
a secure area and exploring alternate
transportation arrangements or wait-
ing for the storm to pass and returning
to base after sunrise when conditions
improved.”
N TSB also noted that the pilot
“was nearing the end of his 12-hour
shift, during which he had flown pre-
vious missions and may have had lim-
ited opportunities to rest. He had been
on duty overnight, and the accident
occurred at an early hour that can be
associated with degraded alertness.”
Sometimes, we are our own worst
enemy. Human error, whether it’s
caused by fatigue, the desire to finish
a shift, or any of a large number of
other casual factors, is a part of avia-
tion operations. The stakes for aircraft
operators are high, we all know that,
but it’s important to keep this in mind
as an example of where the decision
to push forward into the gray area can
have dire consequences. When deal-
ing with Mother Nature, know your
limits. The line may be closer than you
think, and at times we can all be one
bad decision away from disaster.
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