print email comment close Fact Sheet: Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Safety URL: http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=6763 Description: Facts about Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) operations safety, covering accident rates, role of the medical community, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight, specific FAA actions, operations specifications, weather, night vision goggles, flight data recorders, and Terrain Awareness Warning Systems (TAWS). Discusses the FAA rulemaking project (started in April 2009) to address HEMS initiatives and best practices. From the FAA. Publisher: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) LII Database Information: Record 27900 created by Jennifer English on 02/03/2009 Last modification on 05/19/2009 Published: 07/29/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27900