Yea, really tugs at the heartstrings! Gosh.

I recall landing a Cessna 206 once on a mud strip on the vast
Navajo Indian Reservation (bigger than the state of New Jersey!)
to pick up an almost-dead-beat-to-****-drunken Navajo Indian who
had been rolled the night before.

Throughout the 157 nautical mile flight from Chinle to
Albuquerque, I'll never forget the stench of stale, cheap whiskey
mixed with old, caked-on blood that permeated my cabin.

IIRC, he died on the gurney enroute, but of course for "CYA"
reasons the ACLS nurse declared that he died on the ground while
the paramedics were wheeling him from my airplane to the waiting
ambulance.

It certainly wasn't the patients laying in the stretchers -- it was
the spectacular Rocky mountains and Southwestern U.S. scenery
that tugged at my heartstrings.

I wonder if we have flown for the same outfit. They used to do a lot of 206
flights around the reservation there. I have done some 206 flights into
Chinle...

I have done air med flights into Chinle too, not one of my favorite locations,
but they do have a paved runway now though. Taking a 414 into Zuni at night,
now thats interesting.


Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter