1994-04 · NASA ASRS report 269792
HELI EMS PLT ENCOUNTERS WX. MUST DIVERT AGAIN TO HOSPITAL SITE.
; I DEPARTED A HOSPITAL CITY D; ABOUT X:58 FOR A PR VISIT TO CITY C. DUAT WX BRIEF INDICATED FLT COULD BE CONDUCTED VFR FREE OF ICE. DEPARTED THE PR SITE ABOUT Y:58 AND ARRIVED AT ARPT F FOR FUEL AT Z:22. WHILE STARTING FOR DEP WAS CONTACTED BY MY DISPATCHER ASKING IF I COULD DIVERT TO CITY E FOR A PATIENT PICKUP. AFTER REVIEWING THE COPY OF DUAT I HAD IN THE COCKPIT; I ELECTED THAT I COULD COMPLETE THE FLT. I DEPARTED CITY E AT W:24 FOR AN APPROX 35 MIN FLT TO HOSPITAL A. 15 NM NNE OF HOSPITAL A; I SAW VISIBILITY DECREASING TO MY FRONT AND I BEGUN TO PICKUP VERY LI RAIN. I HAD MONITORED ARPT G ATIS THROUGHOUT THE FLT. THEY RPTED 19 OVC 10 PLUS. SOON AFTER I ENCOUNTERED THE RAIN; I ENCOUNTERED (UNFORECAST) FREEZING RAIN THAT BEGAN TO OBSCURE THE WINDSCREEN. I IMMEDIATELY DIVERTED TOWARDS ARPT G. HALFWAY THERE; TWR RPTED THE VISIBILITY WAS DECREASING WITH FALLING RAIN. I THEN DIVERTED TO THE B HOSPITAL ABOUT 4 MINS AWAY. PATIENT WAS ADMITTED TO B HOSPITAL. ARRANGEMENT THAT WERE MADE FOR GND TRANSPORT OF THE PATIENT WERE NOT UTILIZED. WX FORECAST FOR X:00 LCL AT ZZZ WAS 15 OVCST 0714G24 OCN/8 OVCST 2R-1P-S-F. YES; THE CONDITIONS ARRIVED EARLY AND I SHOULD HAVE UPDATED MY WX BRIEF. LESSON WELL LEARNED!
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.