A medical helicopter transporting a 1-year-old little girl crashed and burned in suburban Chicago overnight, killing all four aboard. The aircraft apparently clipped a radio tower, and authorities want to know if the tower's lights had been on. (Oct. 16)
The strobe on towers arnt controlled by a computer system. Its controlled by a sensor. When it gets kind of dark it triggers the strobe on. theres no computer system. works like a motion sensor light.
RewindDesigns 1 year ago
Most of these Medivac flights are done for the purpose of billing the insurance company thousands of dollars for a helicopter flight. They're not really necessary--certainly not when you weigh it against the number of collateral deaths!
highnrising 2 years ago
stangin209: You're wrong. The strobes on that tower are controlled by a computer system, and the strobes were working that night. I'm intimately familiar with that radio station. I worked there for nearly nine years. The pilot was flying way too low. In fact, that chopper flew directly over my house just three or four minutes before it crashed.
RonN448 2 years ago
Too much relying on GPS... use your charts as well guys!!
rinro01 3 years ago
6th deadly helicopter crash in 2008? In a previous AP video they mention there were nine fatal med evac chopper crashes this year. Doesn't AP research their own videos? One death even came back to the living in the Flagstaff Arizona crash. AP didn't even know where Flagstaff was on a map. Makes me wonder what other stuff is made up er... 'reported' from AP.
OneRottenTomato 3 years ago
some idiot left the light off on the tower
stangin209 3 years ago