And he was the pilot in this Carmona episode:
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_028ebe50-2d6a-11e0-8e05-001cc4c03286.htmlLeonberger was a state Department of Public Safety pilot in 1992 in a dramatic rescue in which
he hovered expertly above the crash of Medivac helicopter that had smashed into a a rocky,
snowy cliff in the Pinaleno Mountains near Safford. Susan Ben-Asher Newton and Dale Matthews,
the nurse and pilot of the Medivac, were killed.
Glenn Velardi, a medic who survived the crash, spent the night waiting for rescue.
In dramatic fashion, then-deputy Tom Price and Dr. Richard Carmona rappelled to Valardi's side.
Price helped Carmona rig himself into a harness with Velardi. Al Quezada, a DPS flight medic,
helped direct the operation from the helicopter, which flew Carmona and Velardi, dangling and
spinning from the end of a 75-foot line, to a safe landing site about a mile away.
Carmona went on to become U.S. Surgeon General.
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