Follow RT on A hospital helipad in the English city of Cambridge was knocked out of commission by a US Air Force helicopter during an exercise, blowing the pad to pieces and compelling a diversion of emergency flights elsewhere.
An American CV22 Osprey tiltrotor military craft was captured on film as it attempted to take off from Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge on Wednesday, with the downward blast of air from its propellers destroying the pad and sending parts flying across the hospital grounds.
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7:52 AM April 23, 2021
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10:54 AM April 23, 2021
The landing pad at Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge was destroyed by a USAF military aircraft.
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Air ambulances are unable to land at Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge after its helipad was destroyed by a US military aircraft during a training exercise.
Emergency medical crews must now fly critically ill patients to Cambridge City Airport, three miles away, before they can be transferred by land to Addenbrooke s.
Footage posted yesterday on You Tube shows the landing pad being ripped up by the draught from a departing US Air Force (USAF) CV22 Osprey.
The Osprey, which is based at RAF Mildenhall, was taking part in a USAF training exercise.
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The Osprey, with its two powerful tilting rotors, has a reputation for creating mayhem with its downwash.
The Air Force uses the Osprey for long-range, special operations transport missions.
A U.S. Air Force Osprey tiltrotor accidentally demonstrated what happens when you point 12,000 horsepower straight down: you blow away a helicopter helipad. The helipad, apparently made of rubber matting, was no match for the Osprey’s two Rolls-Royce engines.
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The incident took place on Wednesday at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, the U.K. The helipad was used in a military exercise involving U.S. Air Force units. As the CV-22 Osprey took off, it lifted the mats that created the helipad into the air and blew them in all directions.
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