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Rscaife1682 From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 319 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1406 times:

Just saw on CNN Aurora IL a chopper transporting a 1 year old girl to hospital clipped a radio mast looks like it was 2-300ft high. No survivors very very sad

RYAN
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Rscaife1682 From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 319 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1407 times:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/16/chopper.crash/index.html

guess that mast was a lot higher than what it looked like on TV it says here 750ft

RYAN
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LHUSA From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 553 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1318 times:

The flight nurse was a close friend to many of my friends. He loved what he did. A very sad accident. My thoughts with the victims and their families.

Tjwgrr From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2297 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1257 times:

Air Angels based in Bolingbrook, IL:

http://www.airangels.com/home/

Direct KNOBS, maintain 2700' until established on the localizer, cleared ILS runway 26 left approach.

Type-Rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4350 posts, RR: 20
Reply 4, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1197 times:

This crash occurred within two blocks of my sisters house. She said she heard it when it crashed.
It appears that it had a collision with a tower guy wire. That antenna tower isn't that tall, certainly less than 1,000 feet. What was that chopper pilot doing so low while still a considerable distance from his destination? Didn't he have an eye on his sectional that would have pointed out the location of the tower? The sectional would have pointed out the minimum altitude required to clear all obstacles for that area of the map.

Fly North Central Airlines..The route of the Northliners!

DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16824 posts, RR: 57
Reply 5, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1153 times:

I also can't stop thinking about that poor little 1yo. And even worse, his/her parents. Rest in peace, little angel.

Steex From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 1426 posts, RR: 9
Reply 6, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1140 times:

Quoting Type-Rated (Reply 4):
What was that chopper pilot doing so low while still a considerable distance from his destination? Didn't he have an eye on his sectional that would have pointed out the location of the tower

I've been wondering the same thing. The crash site would put the chopper a little over 20 miles from its departure point (in Sandwich, IL) and still 30+ miles from its destination in Chicago.

In the Beacon News article (the Aurora paper), it said the patient was initially to be transported to Central DuPage Hospital over in Winfield. The only thing that would've made sense to me is if they didn't find out they were heading to Chicago rather than Winfield until after they were already descending toward Winfield. They were still about 8.5 miles from that hospital as well, though.

Type-Rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4350 posts, RR: 20
Reply 7, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1045 times:

What is really scary is that the Channel 13 news helicopter crash occurred a few short miles from my house and the Medivac crash happened a few short blocks from my sisters house!
Kind of scary, isn't it?

Fly North Central Airlines..The route of the Northliners!

OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1029 times:

Quoting Rscaife1682 (Reply 1):
guess that mast was a lot higher than what it looked like on TV it says here 750ft

At least from what I've read, they didn't hit the tower itself, but one of the guy wires below the highest level of the tower....

BravoGolf From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 535 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 936 times:

There is some question now if the obstruction lights were on. The NTSB official on the scene stated they were off when he arrived about 1.5 hours after the incident.

BravoGolf From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 535 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (4 years 7 months 4 days ago) and read 796 times:

Chicago Sun Times article today confirms that the tower anti-collision lights were working. A video camera recording, for the commuter railroad METRA, confirmed that the lights were working.

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