Fili Airplane Airplane: Local Medical Transport Team provides a perspective – FOX 6 Milwaukee

Milwauki County, Wiscon. – More than a week after the crash of Medical Transport in Philadelphia, the National Transport Safety Council (NTSB) is working to understand what caused the disaster.

FOX6 receives a new reaction from a similar transport team based on the children’s Wisconsin, providing a new perspective on their work.

Catastrophe in Philadelphia

The story:

It happened on a flash. A medical transport aircraft carrying a child, her mother, and four crew members crashed in northeastern Philadelphia on January 31st.

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All six people aboard the Medvak aircraft and a man on the ground died in the fiery crash.

Local perspective

What they say:

“Especially in this order of work, every time you see something like that happen. It just makes you stop and think for a second,” said the transport nurse Timothy Cohen.

He and Scott Manebach, a transport respiratory therapist in the children’s Wisconsin, share their disaster reaction.

“I hit me hard. My wife doesn’t want to talk about it because she is afraid that she can happen to me,” said Scott Manebach.

Timoti Cohen and Scot Manebach

But Manebach, who has been with the transport team for more than two decades, also talks about the rarity of a crash like this.

“I’ve been here for 22 years. This is the second medical aircraft that I believe has crashed after 22 years, so there is a good experience for it,” Manebach added.

They are part of a team of medical staff responsible for transporting critically ill or injured children to the children’s Wisconsin by air and land.

In a publication on Instagram, the hospital said it was the only integration team focused on neonatal and pediatrics in the region.

Wisconsin Children’s Transport Team

“I went to California, Texas, Florida,” Manebach said. “Any place in a five -hour driving would be a fixed wing. This means an airplane.”

While their work takes them to new heights, work with patients is enjoyable and grounding.

“I really try to focus everything I have in this child at the right time. Help them as well as possible,” Cohen said.

Medical transport by helicopter

The crews have filled the crater left by the Philadelphia crash.

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As federal investigators are trying to determine what goes wrong with the aircraft, the Wisconsin Children’s team assures me that they feel safe in the sky.

“They make sure all the protocols are present. The pilots know what they are doing, the mechanics know what they are doing,” Manebach said.

“Definitely just a broken heart. All our thoughts and prayers come to all the families that were affected by this devastating tragedy,” Cohen said.