3 die in medical helicopter crash at Bliss
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Feb 7, 2010 17:03:52 EST
EL PASO, Texas — Three people were killed when a medical helicopter crashed during a training exercise at Fort Bliss, just outside El Paso, Army authorities said.
The Southwest Med Evac helicopter crashed on final approach to a landing zone Friday during a scheduled training session at the McGregor Range, according to a statement Saturday from Las Cruces, N.M.-based Southwest Med Evac, a unit of Addison, Texas-based Omniflight Helicopters.
The company said the three crew members on board were the pilot, William Montgomery of Avondale, Ariz., and paramedics John Sutter of Las Cruces, N.M., and Anthony Archuleta of El Paso, Texas.
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My thoughts and prayers are with their families. We work in a dangerous profession and always have to be diligent with the safety of our aircraft and training.
ReplyDeleteToo many we count on everyday but do not pay attention to until we need them.
ReplyDeleteMilitary, we don't think about them unless there is a war to fight. We think about them when they deploy and we may even think about them when they return showing up to welcome them back home, but our attention and appreciation usually ends there. We show up or offer prayers for the fallen as they are laid to rest, but we usually forget about the families left behind soon after. If they are wounded, they are someone else's problem.
National Guards and Reservists, again, we don't think about them unless there are not enough regular military servicemen and women with a war to fight and they have to go. We think about them when natural disasters strike and we let out a sigh of relief as they show up to help us put our lives back together again. After that, we forget all about them until the next time they are needed.
Police officers, sheriffs and other law enforcement members are forgotten about until we need them for our own safety but we hate to see them on the streets and highways as we drive too fast or break the law in other ways. No one thinks about them after the news reports on an incident they were involved in when their lives were on the line. When they die in the line of duty, we may feel bad for the families but then we soon forget about them.
Firefighters and EMT, same story. Unless we need them, we just don't feel as if we have to care about them at all.
Dangerous jobs we expect to be filled by someone else but then we neglect all of you until we need you again.