Medical helicopter crash kills 4, including patient

Wow. Any way you look at it, on the CNN video clip it was drizzle and fog, or the KEDN sequentials {AWOS3, 8 miles away} it bounced around 100 to 200 with a pop or two to 400 over and 2 miles or less, from 1 hr. before til 7 hours after this event. Pretty sure that was reasonably wide spread. Flew a couple of years of air bambulance and donor organ lift in Lear 25s and C650s. Don't recall any pilots who would totally disregard the weather no matter who or what was or was gonna be in the back. The heli guys bring it on themselves, and the patient and crew! As a participant and observer in the EMS industry I have followed heli EMS and their accident rate from terrible to horrible and back to terrible. Hittin the trees or whatever at 70 or 80 versus 130 doesn't seem to alter the outcome. Just because you can't see it doesn't make it subjective. Flying anything low in extremely "low ifr" doesn't seem a good career move, Cat. 111 autoland excepted. If you look around you'll notice that most of the time even the birds don't do it. This is not intended to be a direct slam of the pilot so much as an observation on the industry in which it recurs so often. In corporate speak it's called corporate culture, in heli EMS speak, I'd call it risky bidness. So has BCA, several times.