The last week of April 2023, I was in Las Vegas sitting at an FBO waiting for dispatch to call. I am an air ambulance pilot flying the venerable Lear 35 twinjet around the country, moving patients to critical and advanced care facilities.
We dropped a patient the previous evening in Sin City and were waiting for our next mission. As late afternoon approached, I was expecting a call about what hotel we would be in that night. The call came, but not as expected. The direction was to gather the crew (first officer, flight nurse, and flight paramedic) and get to Chicago Midway International (KMDW) as soon as possible. One of our other aircraft developed a technical issue after taxiing with a patient on board that was awaiting transfer to New York for surgery.
