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How Will Future Patients Fly?
Phil Gunby
JAMA. 2000;283:1680.
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Although none of the US military's twin-jet C-9 Nightingale shorter-range medical evacuation transports has been found to have the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew damage suggested to have caused the crash of a related type of commercial jetliner (and subsequently found on 23 civilian-registered aircraft), there are other aeromedical challenges. Larger, four-jet C-141 transports, the primary means of flying US military patients to the United States from abroad, are to be phased out in the next 6 years. Of the original fleet of 285, just 151 remain.
Military planners are exploring the use of other aircraft to meet this need. Earlier this year, for example, the US Air Force used one of its giant C-5 Galaxy cargo jets—not normally used for medical flights—to airlift a US Navy family whose 1-month-old son needed emergency cardiac surgery and a neonatal intensive care team from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, to St Louis. Among . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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