A medical transport plane that takes a patient to a girl, her mother and four others Beef in a neighborhood of Philadelphia and exploded in flames.
The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a potentially deadly condition and was being transported home to Mexico, according to Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the plane operator. The final destination of the flight was Tijuana after a stop at Missouri. The six people on board were from Mexico.
The plane crashed on Friday 30 seconds after takeoff from the Northeast of Philadelphia airport, which mainly serves business aircraft and charter flights.
This is what you should know about air medical transport:
An aerial ambulance provides transportation to people in critical or potentially mortal situations when a land ambulance cannot reach a patient or would not reach them quick enough.
They help to boost the chances of a patient to survive and recover, particularly in rural areas that have no trauma or burning centers, according to 2017 Report of the United States Government Responsibility Office.
They have grown in importance as more rural hospitals have closed, according to a Medical Magazine Report of 2022.
Air ambulances can be a helicopter or a fixed -wing plane. Helicopters are usually used to take patients between hospitals or from the scene of an accident to a hospital. The plane versions fly longer distances between airports.
Helicopters represent 74% of all aerial ambulances, according to Gao’s report.
The Philadelphia accident involved a Learjet 55, a small businesses.
People with traumatic injuries, pregnancy complications, heart attacks, strokes and respiratory diseases are the most common users of air ambulances, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. More than 550,000 patients in the US use them every year.
In Hawaii, for example, they are frequently used Taking patients with less populated islands, where medical care is more limited, to Honolulu, where the largest hospitals in the state are.
The owner of the plane that crashed in Philadelphia, Jet Rescue, flew to the member of the Baseball Hall David Ortiz to Boston after he was shot in the Dominican Republican in 2019.
Air ambulances will often have similar equipment that save lives as fans and blood transfusion devices. They will have stretchers and incubators.
The Mayo Clinic, for example, said that its aerial ambulances will have an external defibrillator, an external pacemaker and more than 60 medications.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians serve patients on board. Sometimes doctors and nurses are on board.
The average air ambulance trip is 52 miles (84 kilometers) and costs between $ 12,000 and $ 25,000 per flight, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The patient’s medical condition and on -board staff can influence the price.
Many insurers will pay what they think is reasonable, but sometimes they will not agree with the air ambulance provider and, in these cases, the patient may have to pay the difference.
Insurance experts say that big invoices are increasingly common As costs and coverage changes increase.
Yes, there were 87 accidents that led to 230 deaths from 2000 to 2020, according to a study in the prehospital magazine and disaster medicine. Almost three quarters of those accidents were in helicopters.
Human factors that may include pilot errors or disorientation, deterioration and fatigue contributed to 87% of fatal accidents.
The Philadelphia accident was the second fatal incident in 15 months for Jet Rescue. In 2023, five crew members were killed when his plane invaded a track in the Mexican central state of Morelos and crashed into a hillside.
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