MetaChat - Holy Crap! Helicopter crash in Grand Rapids

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29 May 2008

Holy Crap! Helicopter crash in Grand Rapids →[More:]A medical helicopter crashed on top of a local hospital and the roof is on fire. That ain't good.

post by: King of Prontopia at: 10:31 | 9 comments

OMG. My mom was a bigwig administrator at Spectrum back when it was Butterworth. This is HUGE news for GR. Hope nobody in my family or that I know was there...

posted by Stewriffic 29 May | 10:33

There is a video here.

posted by King of Prontopia 29 May | 10:56

The ads in front of the video are so tasteful..., I wonder if they hit that higher portion with a rotor?

posted by King of Prontopia 29 May | 10:58

Wasn't Grand Rapids also mourning the one year anniversary of the medical plane crash from last year (that happened in Lake Michigan)?

posted by drezdn 29 May | 11:12

I don't think that plane crash had much to do with GR, drezdn. It was on its way from Milwaukee to Ann Arbor.

posted by deadcowdan 29 May | 11:14

Just called Mom about this. She's freaking out mildly and hoping that X, Y and Z person she knows was not involved. One of the people she mentioned is an ER doc.

I told her she'd better find an alternate route across the river to Grand Valley.

posted by Stewriffic 29 May | 11:23

Deadcowdan: Ah... I thought I had heard about a memorial in Michigan, but I must have confused Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids.

A Flight for Life helicopter went down here a few weeks ago.

posted by drezdn 29 May | 13:37

Turns out it wasn't that bad, it was a training flight with the pilot and a FAA guy. They both got away with only light injuries, or so says the radio.

posted by King of Prontopia 29 May | 15:48

No casualties, they say everyone got out safely. Whew!

In Wisconsin there was a MedFlight crash this month; unfamiliar destination, slammed into terrain (a tree-lined bluff) at night. The service is going to start using night vision goggles and other "recommended, not required" safety equipment that they hadn't gotten around to using.

posted by dhartung 29 May | 15:49

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