Helicopter aborts hospital landing due to snow, Bay City MI
A helicopter aborted its landing at McLaren Hospital due to heavy snow and was redirected to an alternate landing zone in a nearby parking lot. Emergency units coordinated the safe landing and continued medical response to a 60-year-old male experiencing a seizure at a nearby residence.
Audio|Source: Bay County Public Safety, MSP, DNR
02:39
Transcript:
00:00
We had to abort our landing.
00:01
We're going around at this point due to heavy snow in the area.
00:05
We were unable to visualize the pads.
00:08
So we're going around.
00:09
I wondered if you could reach out to McClaren Thump and ask them to move us into the parking lot.
00:16
We just need the security guard to go out.
00:19
Maybe throw out some turbo players or something to look for a suitable alternate landing spot.
00:26
Happy abort by aligning due to the snow.
00:28
I'm going to call security to get you a place with the working lab.
00:32
Okay,
00:34
thank you.
00:38
Real 40.
00:45
(number withheld). (number withheld).
00:47
Out of service.
00:48
Have good night.
00:55
Here, with advise, they will contact security.
01:04
Central 805.
01:11
Let's clear, Clive.
01:15
Copy assure you all clear at 58.
01:23
Snorrs in the hospital,
01:25
I don't know what building that is, but there's a lot of the parking lot there.
01:29
And there's no snow around it,
01:32
because I don't think I can get into that pad because of all the snow that they got out here that's on the grass.
01:36
It just kept rolling up, right?
01:39
And I couldn't see the actual landing pad.
01:44
Thank you. Okay. I hear that.
01:45
You're going to hover.
01:46
You're going to circle.
01:47
And you want to go just north of the hospital to the parking lot there that looks clear.
01:51
I will call them back.
02:03
Centralview Station 4, Station 4 for A.
02:06
Medical at Riverwalk Meadows, 505 Germania Avenue, 505 Germania, apartment (number withheld) - (number withheld) - 60-year-old male subject there.
02:15
Seizure, time now in 1959.
02:21
Go ahead.
02:25
Thank you. I called the hospital.
02:27
They called the department.
02:29
I set up an LZ[1] for you.
02:30
I get advice that you went north of the hospital in the parking lot.
02:34
Okay,
02:38
I understand. We'll wait on the fire department.
02:39
Thank you.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
LZ: Landing Zone
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