Board: Medical flights need stricter controls
Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:20 a.m.
After last year's record number of fatalities, the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged the government to impose stricter controls on emergency-helicopter operators, including requiring the use of autopilots, night-vision systems and flight-data recorders.
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