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The incident, which was captured on video, occurred during a training exercise on Wednesday.
The hospital was forced to temporarily redirect emergency medical flights to a nearby airport.
A US military aircraft accidentally damaged a helipad at a UK hospital on Wednesday, forcing local emergency medical flights to be temporarily rerouted, the UK s ITV News reported Thursday.
The intense downwash from the rotors of what has been identified as a US Air Force CV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft wrecked the helipad at Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge, England, during a training exercise, sending rubber matting and other debris flying.
A video of the incident has surfaced online.
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