Rob Pietro pulls the stick into his lap and lifts the big Sikorsky helicopter off the roof. The sun blinks like a strobe light through the spinning blades as Pietro, 42, follows a route he knows well, ...

Helicopters in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are essential tools for helping hospitals overcome distance and terrain for rural patients and traffic congestion in dense, urban neighborhoods. Even if ...

Eastern Lycoming County will get a second medical helicopter next year stationed at the UPMC Muncy. UPMC and STAT MedEvac are ...

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended warning systems be installed on emergency medical helicopters to prevent crashes. Since then, accidents have killed ...

Responding to a spate of fatal emergency medical helicopter accidents, a federal safety panel said Tuesday that aviation officials are not acting quickly enough on proposals to prevent crashes. The ...

ANDALUSIA, Ill. — Before guests hit the slopes this winter, the Snowstar ski resort rescue team got some training from the skies. Medforce Air, a nonprofit helicopter EMS team operating out of West ...

WASHINGTON Responding to a spate of fatal emergency medical helicopter accidents, a federal safety panel said Tuesday aviation officials are not acting quickly enough on proposals to prevent crashes.

Lincoln Memorial University and Covenant Health's new EMS facility in Cumberland Gap, opening Dec. 1, promises faster ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Mercy Health announced the addition of a new helicopter to its Life Flight Network in northwest Ohio Wednesday, which will be stationed specifically in Perrysburg during the total solar ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Helicopter makers are scrambling for new sources of demand after being hit by a severe downturn in their biggest non-military clientele - oil and gas producers. One promising ...