Medevac Helicopter Flights Could Be Grounded by New 5G Rollout
- Aviation groups girding for severe impacts starting Jan. 19
- Despite compromise last week, flight limits still likely
View from a hospital helicopter flight iin Aurora, Colorado.
Photographer: Andy Cross/Denver Post/Getty ImagesThis article is for subscribers only.
The critically ill newborn baby was whisked by helicopter Saturday from rural Silverton, Oregon, to a children’s hospital in Portland, the kind of life-saving transport Life Flight Network makes thousands of times a year.
But starting Jan. 19, when new 5G wireless service kicks off across the country, such routine air-ambulance missions may no longer be permitted.