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Believing in Possibilities
Forty Years of Flight for Life®
Colorado
BY LINDSEY C. MCFARREN
I
recently had the opportunity to attend an uplifting
and unique event — a blessing of the fleet. The blessing
also served as a celebration of 40 years of Flight
for Life®
the Rocky Mountain region with critical care transportation.
Flight for Life®
Colorado is operated through the
St. Anthony Health Foundation and is equipped with five
helicopters, three airplanes, and three ground ambulances.
The helicopters are operated by Air Methods, while the airplanes
are operated by Mayo Aviation, both headquartered
at Centennial Airport in Denver. The aircraft are able to
serve Colorado and nine other Rocky Mountain states. Flight
for Life®
Colorado was the first civilian operation
Colorado’s continuous service in Denver and
Colorado, said the birth and early success of Flight for Life®
Colorado was the result of three separate factors occurring
in Colorado in the early 1970s. The first and most tragic factor
leading to the birth of Flight for Life®
Colorado was the
Colorado transports approximately 4,000 patients
a year. On an average day, the organization conducts 12 critical
transports.
Flight for Life®
of its type. Kathleen Mayer, the director of Flight for Life®
1970 aircraft crash involving the Wichita State University
football team. The aircraft was carrying thirty-six passengers
and four crewmembers when it crashed in Silver Plume,
Colorado, west of Denver. Twenty-nine people died at the
scene and two more died later while under medical care.
Post-crash analysis suggested there might have been more
survivors if better transportation had been available to get
the passengers over Loveland Pass to trauma centers in
Denver.
The second factor was the huge challenge that the 1976
Winter Olympics, set to take place in Colorado, created:
How to transport injured athletes or spectators to good
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