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Close Call: Air Ambulance Clips Electrical Lines on Take Off

Here is a close call out of British Columbia involving an Air Ambulance that is on scene to pick up a patient. At 2:18 the helicopter takes off and clips power lines. Luckily no one was hurt.

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Posted by The Fire Critic on April 8, 2011 • Filed under: Close Call, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Topics, Fire Rescue Topics, News, Videos • Tagged: Air Ambulance, Close Call, Fire Critic, FireCritic.com, Helicopter, Marines, Medivac, Rhett Fleitz, Video

3 Comments

Jneeper66 says

only one question, if the pilot could make an emergency landing in the field, why didn’t he land there in the first place, instead of on the road right next to the power lines?

on April 11, 2011 @ 10:27 pm. Reply
- Texas_hippie says
  
  That aircraft was equiped with wheels, not skids. Not designed to land on an unimproved surface. If you notice when it landed in the field, the nose mainmount buried in deep. The error was made when the pilot initiated a pedal turn, instead of egressing straight up until well clear of all obstacles. As an aircrewman in the military for over twenty years, I’ve got to say I’ve never seen a move as pure dumbass as that one.
  
  on April 28, 2011 @ 2:29 am. Reply
Bar Kirby says

That looks like a phone line

on April 13, 2011 @ 9:51 pm. Reply