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The footage captured the Learjet 55 air ambulance jet, which was carrying a pediatric patient and her mother, exploding as it smashed to the ground in the busy neighborhood, killing seven people.
A Philadelphia father is calling his son a “superhero” for shielding his younger sister when a medevac jet crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood, showering flames and debris on homes and the ...
“And there’s like a place in my mind that I can’t get near with all of the pain and grief. It’s like the door in my house to my daughter’s room. I just can’t go anywhere near it.”
This article is a list of United States Air Force aeromedical evacuation squadrons both active, inactive, and historical. An aeromedical evacuation squadron's purpose is to evacuate wounded military personnel and civilians from areas of danger to medical facilities with the use of military transport aircraft.
By July 1953 310,000 patients had been transported both within and from the Korean peninsula. In 1954 the Air Force received its first dedicated AE platform, the C-131 Samaritan , which could carry 27 litter patients and had a range of 1500 miles, it was later supplemented with the MC-118 and in 1968 by the C-9 Nightingale , a modified version ...
The 1 AES deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia, on 18 December 1992 and managed more patient movements on aeromedical evacuation missions. The 1 AES was realigned under the 317th Airlift Wing , Air Mobility Command , on 1 July 1992 as part of an Air Force-wide reorganization, and on 16 July 1993, the 1 AES was realigned under Air Combat Command and ...
The plane appeared to have been carrying a medical crew who worked for an air ambulance company, Aeromedevac, which is based in El Cajon, according to early reports.
Casualty evacuation, also known as CASEVAC or by the callsign Dustoff or colloquially Dust Off, is a military term for the emergency patient evacuation of casualties from a combat zone. Casevac can be done by both ground and air. "DUSTOFF" is the callsign specific to U.S. Army Air Ambulance units.