Image Gallery: April 2009
23 April 2009
Ashmore Island boat people Aero Medical Evacuation
The Royal Australian Air Force undertook an Aero Medical Evacuation for 6 of the boat people who were badly injured with burns after their boat was engulfed in flames at Ashmore Reef of the Northern Coast of Western Australia.
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| 20090417raaf8494074_0014 Flying Officer Hayley Bettanin checks the oxygen ports on board the C-17 Globemaster before they load the injured Ashmore Island boat people at RAAF Base Darwin. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090417raaf8494074_0022 Corporal Nigel Cox, from No. 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron, moves a medical equipment container into a C-17 Globemaster at RAAF Base Darwin, before the injured Ashmore Island boat people arrived to be transported from the Royal Darwin Hospital to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090417raaf8540638_0070 The hanger at Truscott Island Airfield to which victims of an offshore boat accident were evacuated for treatment by civilian and RAAF medical personnel. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090417raaf8540638_0128 (Left) Executive Officer of No. 3 Combat Support Hospital (3CSH), Squadron Leader Walter Goedde, guides a stretcher into a RAAF C-130J Hercules for transportation to Perth Airport. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090417raaf8540638_0182 Members of a RAAF Richmond Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team and the Perth St Johns Ambulance prepare to load a burns patient into an ambulance for transportation to Perth Hospital. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090417raaf8540638_0234 Members of a RAAF Richmond Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team and the Perth St Johns Ambulance prepare to load a burns patient into an ambulance for transportation to Perth Hospital. (Date taken: 17 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090418raaf8494074_0073 The Aero Medical Evacuation team, working on the injured Ashmore Island boat people, inside the C-17 Globemaster en route to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. (Date taken: 18 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090418raaf8494074_0085 Flight Lieutenant Leigh Twist (left) and Squadron Leader Wal Grimmett tend to an injured Ashmore Island boat person inside a C-17 Globemaster during the Aero Medical Evacuation to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. (Date taken: 18 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090418raaf8494074_0090 Queensland Ambulance vehicles line up at the airport to transport the injured Ashmore Island boat people off the RAAF C-17 Globemaster to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. (Date taken: 18 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090418raaf8494074_0095 Queensland Ambulance vehicles line up at the airport to transport the injured Ashmore Island boat people off the RAAF C-17 Globemaster to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. (Date taken: 18 April 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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