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paragliding-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Wing For Sale
Helicopters for rescue (repost)
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:35:03 EST
From: RSUNSPORTS@aol.com
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Wing for sale:
Pro-design Profeel 35 cell (Med) Intermediate wing NEW, never flown $
2000. Rick Higgins
808-876-1668
541-387-2112
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 10:35:44 -0800
From: Jeani Sapienza <airtime@televar.com>
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Subject: Helicopters for rescue (repost)
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Kenn:
I am responding to your request for info regarding helicopter rescue
from trees. I feel the need to relay my story so that maybe all of you
out there will check into the helicopter procedures for the county/state
that you live in so that a similar situation will not be your fate.
On April 4, 1997, my husband, Tom Sapienza, owner of Airtime Oregon
(hang gliding/paragliding business) out of Eugene, Oregon, was killed in
a hang-gliding accident in the Coburg Hills near Eugene. Tom was a very
conservative, safe pilot and this was his 927th flight. I am pursuing
vigorously getting helicopter rescue procedures here in Oregon and Lane
County changed. At the time of the accident, the Lane County Sheriff's
Office had sole decision-making capabilities as to whether a helicopter
was to be called in for a rescue procedure. Due to the length of time
for a Deputy Sheriff to get "on-site" in this particular rescue effort
and due to the "wrong helicopter" being called in by the Office of
Emergency Management (the State agency in Oregon that actually
dispatches helicopters for the whole state), Tom bled to death. When
the first rescue personnel arrived on the scene approx. 1 1/2 hrs. after
the accident, it was determined and called in to 911 that a helicopter
was needed, but nothing could be done until the deputy sheriff arrived
approximately 2 1/2 hrs. after the accident and then the wrong
helicopter was called in. In a situation where a pilot is either in a
tree or under the canopy of trees, the optimum choice would be to call
in a helicopter that has "hoist and winch" capabilities. It was decided
by those in control to call in a helicopter which was not equipped with
hoist and winch capabilities, which was too big to land near Tom, too
heavy to land on the hospital which was 8 miles away so that he would
have to land some miles away and additional time taken to ambulance him
to the hospital, etc., etc. So because of this, Tom was transported by
foot over horrendous terrain causing internal bleeding. This was a
lesson in what could possibly go wrong, did go wrong. The consequence
of this particular botched rescue effort was that Tom died from internal
bleeding. Ironically, there was a Coast Guard helicopter with hoist and
winch capabilities (that could have been called) doing touch and go
landings on the hospital where Tom was taken at the time that the
initial people on the scene made the determination that a helicopter was
needed.
I have only love and respect for the fine rescue people who assisted
Tom. They made the best decisions they were able given the
circumstances and that the choice of helicopters was out of their
control. I am having difficulty getting the powers that be to accepting
change to save lives in similar rescue operations. I have sought legal
counsel, not to initiate a law suit, but in order to get information
documented and to get the County/State changes made. I have been in
communication with my local County Commissioner, my State Representative
and the Governor's office. As of this date, as far as I know, nothing
has changed and it is almost a year since the accident occurred. A
similar fate could be in store for anyone else in a like situation. I
will keep pursuing this situation until the procedures are changed. If
you have any ideas or suggestions as to ways to get this changed, I
would appreciate hearing them. Fly safe.
Jeani Sapienza
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