Air Medical Journal
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 29-31, January 2005

The IFR bullet:

Can it kill our accident rate?

  • Ben Springer, BA, ATP, CFII

      Affiliations

    • Ben Springer was a 9-year air ambulance pilot working with Airlift Northwest/CJ Systems in the Seattle area.

Abstract 

The helicopter air ambulance community has been very consistent lately: about once a month, we crash. A fifth of those crashes involve weather, the biggest category by far. Suppose we had a silver bullet, aiming all our safety emphasis on this one area; could we blow a hole in our accident rate?

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PII: S1067-991X(04)00212-3

doi:10.1016/j.amj.2004.10.009

Air Medical Journal
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 29-31, January 2005

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