Air Ambulance Makes Debut in Indiana
A specially outfitted twin-engine turboprop plane is set to make its first flight as Indiana’s only fixed-wing air ambulance service.
From a hangar on the lonely back side of Indianapolis International Airport, Hal Blank and his three-member volunteer flight and medical crew are scheduled Saturday to leave Indiana for Chicago, pick up two patients and take them to Maryland. Their passengers are a 70-year-old quadriplegic and her mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Grace on Wings was launched with the help of a network of churches and a backer who underwrote the purchase of the airplane.
“We go pick you up at the bed, and we deliver you and tuck you in,” said Blank, an Army-trained pilot and orthopedic physician’s assistant. “It is a bed-to-bed service.”
Their first two patients from Illinois are virtually helpless and they need a way East, where family members wait to help.
Blank and his all-volunteer flight and medical crew will fly to Chicago, pick up the two and fly them to Maryland, providing constant medical care.
From IndyStar.com
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