Medical helicopter flight crashes on California freeway upon leaving hospital

Crash footage. Three critically injured, but alive. No one hurt on the ground. 15 bystanders lifted the wreckage up to free a pinned victim.

I'm such a Mary. Stuff like this happens everywhere, practically everyday, but this really upsets me.

I just cannot fly after all this plane crashes and this dumb ass, stupid ass animal in the White House. It’s likely not related to the sheer incompetence of this administration but I just can’t do it. I already hated flying as is. Severe anxiety. I don’t know what I’m gon do because I gotta fly for work in 2 months.

Not 59th. Twenty blocks west near the bottom of the 39th Street overpass by the medical center.

Helicopters are not the safest means of transport.

R4 Well we’ll just use stagecoach

Helicopters don't have gliding ability (like airplanes) once rotors fail, so it's a straight drop. Witnesses described it as a somewhat controlled descent with the pilot maintaining some control. The rotors were still going right before impact which helped it "glide " a little. It also helped to let motorists slow down and keep away. This could have been so much worse since it was tail end of rush hour.

[quote] The aircraft appears to cartwheel on I-50 eastbound.

There is no "I-50." The freeway in Sacramento is US 50.

R7 And that’s what it is across the entire country.

It's what locals call it and it is a true interstate terminating in Ocean City, MD.

It may go between states, but it is NOT part of the Interstate Highway System. There's deliberately no I-50 because of the confusion it would cause with US 50. East-west interstate highways are numbered beginning in the south (I-10) to the north(I-90.) US highways are numbered the opposite way. So they would meet in the middle and cause confusion.

Thank you, r10. People may be crippled, yet you belabor such an important point.

[quote] It's what locals call it

R9 My parents used to live in Sacramento and I've spent a lot of time there over the years. I've never heard locals call it I-50. [italic]Highway[/italic] 50, yes. Just [italic]50[/italic], also yes. But never I-50.

Nobody filmed the lifting of the airplane rescue?!?