The Rock Springs accident was not HEMS.... there is more than meets the eye to this... from another site:
In one of the early articles on the crash an online newspaper, Rocketminer.com listed the names of the people onboard (excluding a 13 year old boy).
Doing a FAA database search of those names shows that the man who the police listed as "piloting the craft" only had a mechanic's A&P ratings - no pilot certificate. One other guy onboard matched a name in the database for an older guy (age 58) who had a private rotorcraft certificate but whose current "FAA-address" is in Miami. The name of another man (age 28) also does show up. He lives in Denver and has a bunch of fixed-wing ratings (including ATP) - but no rotorcraft.
What the hell was going on here?! Did a non-rated mechanic have some friends/relatives who were fixed-wing pilots visiting and want to take them up and show them all the bells and whistles of their new helicopter? And did they go up with him under the assumption that he was rated?
No wonder the accident doesn't show up in the NTSB files yet. There may have been as many as two "real" pilots onboard (albeit not rotorcraft rated) in addition to the non-rated guy at the controls. The FAA is probably STILL sitting around trying to figure out who and how to violate over this one. But rest assured, violations are coming!
See for yourselves at the archived story:
Passengers of downed helicopter identified - The Rocket-Miner