A Maryland State Police EMS AS-365 Dauphine crashed this morning in the Maryland countryside during a patient transport mission from the scene of an auto accident -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092800416.html
All the facts seem to point to a CFIT during marginal VFR - a mishap root cause that is rampant in civillian EMS helo operations (even those operated under FAR Part 135).
This would be the fourth major civiallian EMS helo mishap this year where there was of of life in an industry that can ill afford it...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092800416.html
All the facts seem to point to a CFIT during marginal VFR - a mishap root cause that is rampant in civillian EMS helo operations (even those operated under FAR Part 135).
This would be the fourth major civiallian EMS helo mishap this year where there was of of life in an industry that can ill afford it...