All crew are ok as far as I know, both air corps and HSE ambulance service….!!!

Karma is a bitch Mickey mouse if that is your real name. :)
Let’s hope your not in need off that service some day. I personally know the crew and glad that it was a hard landing and not another tragic loss of servicemen/women.

They have a very risky job, having to land in very confined spaces to collect patients in need of urgent care. We should be grateful to our military and ambulance service for the services they provide and glad all the crew are safe.

Timewise a journey that takes an hour by ambulance by road can be travelled in fifteen to twenty mins by the Air Corps Helicopter given the correct wind conditions. God forbid if anyone was in a bad accident and bleeding heavily or required emergency Surgery, I know who I’d like to be attending the scene.

Mickey Mouse you’re a dipstick!

Glad no one was hurt. Good skills to walk away from a dodgy chopper, well done air corp. My brother passed by the scene to day and it was manic with all sorts of strange emergency jeeps and vehicles about that he did not recognize.

thought it was very quiet in town this evening. its over and back over the house the whole time. thankfully noone was injured.

Don’t go throwing daggers and thumbs down at me now, I think the service is a great one. But I just thought it was a bit …. I don’t know …. questionable perhaps that the patient in need appears to have been able to make it to hospital by road anyway. So I guess the availability of an air ambulance isn’t always going to be the difference between life and death if the conventional method works like it did in this case. Still – I’d much rather the service was there than not.

actually, just to say, when that helicopter was bought, someone here pointed out it was prone to problems and this is just the start of them

Why did they need to make an emergency landings? Is this common for air ambulance services?

Air ambulance missions are amongst the riskiest in the world due to the necessity to land in tight spaces and often in close proximity to road sides and the inevitable presence of overhead cables. It was only a matter of time before this happened but unfortunate that it happened so early in the service. This aircraft is actually fitted with wire guards for this very purpose.

The issue that people think they know about relates to mandatory rotor inspections every 10 hours of flying. The aircraft in question is standard for most police forces and air ambulance operations the world over.

However, one wonders did the government rush into the provision of air ambulance services too early.

Might be time to consider some NOTARs for the Air Ambulance role…

Our Military elite.