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A sad note to end EMS Week. This morning an ORNGE Air Ambulance Sikorsky S76 Helicopter crashed in Northern Ontario enroute to pick up a patient for a transfer. The two paramedics and two pilots on board were killed. May they rest in peace.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/05/31/sby-sudbury-ornge-air-ambulance-accident-moosonee-attawapiskat-james-bay.html

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All the best to the four families as they grieve and slowly heal.

On another note, why were they in an S76A instead of at least an S76C or one of the brand spanking new AW139's ORNGE just bought?

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All the best to the four families as they grieve and slowly heal.

On another note, why were they in an S76A instead of at least an S76C or one of the brand spanking new AW139's ORNGE just bought?

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I'm sure a lot of the questions that everyone on here is asking themselves but holding off in deference and out of respect to the crew will be answered over the course of the investigation.

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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee

No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed
11 December 1941

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