USA Today, "Surge in crashes scars air ambulance industry"

          The helicopter flight to take heart patient Jerry Leonard from one Indiana hospital to another should have been routine. But on the night of the trip, April 20, 2004, the pilot on the Air Evac Lifeteam air ambulance apparently forgot to adjust the helicopter's altimeter, federal records show. When he slammed the helicopter carrying Leonard into a hillside near Boonville, Ind., the cockpit gauge showed he was 310 feet off the ground.
          "Boy, I screwed up," pilot Richard Larock told an emergency worker who responded to the crash.
          Larock and two medical workers survived, but Leonard -- 63 years old and strapped to a gurney -- was flung from the helicopter, the stretcher strap forced against his throat. "It took 10 minutes for him to strangle to death," says his son, Keith Leonard.