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Englewood-based Air Methods (NASDAQ: AIRM) on Mondat announced it filed a petition withthe NTSB, askinhg the agency to reconsider or change its probabled cause finding in the June 29, 2008, accident. The two helicoptersx — both Bell 407s — collidefd in the air while attempting to land at FlagstaffMedicalp Center. Six people were killed instantly; a seventuh later died of his injuries. Killer aboard the Air Methodes helicopter werethe pilot, flightr nurse and patient. The other flight was operatee by Classic Helicopters ofWoodz Cross, Utah. The paramedic and patient were killed, and the flight nurse criticallyh injured. The nurse latere died.
The NTSB report said “botj pilots failed to see and avoid the other helicoptere on approach tothe helipad.” Air Methods wanta the NTSB to delete from its reportr the finding that a contributing cause of the accident was “the failure of Air pilot to follow arrival and noise abatement Air Methods also wants added to the report mention that the piloy of the Classic helicopter had taken a prescriptiobn painkiller, and that the Classicv communications center failed to tell its pilot that an Air Methode flight was inbound to the hospitakl with the same estimatee arrival time as the Classic copter.
The NTSB told The Associatedc Press Mondayit wouldn’t comment on Air Methods’ “We are deeply troubled by what we consider to be critica l inaccuracies in the NTSB current Probable Causde Report and the inconsistencies between the findingsa in this case versus previous cases,” Aaron CEO of Air Methods, said in a
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