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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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The Aero Medical Evacuation team on board the C-17 en route to Darwin.

(Date taken: 16 April 2009)
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The Aero Medical Evacuation team are briefed in the hotel lobby before they transport the injured Ashmore Island boat people from the Royal Darwin Hospital to the Royal Brisbane Hospital on a RAAF C-17 Globemaster.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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The Aero Medical Evacuation team were briefed in the hotel lobby before they transported the injured Ashmore Island boat people from the Royal Darwin Hospital to the Royal Brisbane Hospital on a RAAF C-17 Globemaster.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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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)
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No. 36 Squadron Loadmaster, Sergeant David Sheen secures a medical litter inside the C-17 Globemaster 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)
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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)
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Leading Aircraftwoman Lisamaree Wyer assembles the platform for the medical litters to be secured to inside 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)
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RAAF Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team members administer treatment to a burns patient in an aircraft hanger at Truscott Island Airfield.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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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)
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Burns patients are tended to by Flying Officer Maree Yin Foo during the transportation to Perth Airport onboard a RAAF C-130J Hercules.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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(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)
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Members of the St Johns Ambulance Service receive a brief from RAAF Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team members in preparation for the transportation of burns victims to Perth Hospital.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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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)
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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)
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Burns patients are unloaded from a RAAF C-130J Hercules (A97-442) onto a St Johns ambulance for transportation to Perth Hospital. The Perth State Emergency Service (SES) assisted in the transfer alongside members of the RAAF and St Johns Ambulance Service.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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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)
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Members of a RAAF Richmond Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team and the Perth St Johns Ambulance service guide an ambulance to the rear of a C-130J Hercules in preparation for the transportation of burns patients.

(Date taken: 17 April 2009)
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Flight Lieutenant Leigh Twist (left) and Squadron Leader Wal Grimmett change the injured Ashmore Island boat person’s oxygen source to the aircrafts supply at RAAF Base Darwin, before their medivac to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

(Date taken: 18 April 2009)
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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)
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Flight Lieutenant Fiona Roberts tends 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)
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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)
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Sergeant Wayne Sturgess (Left) and Flight Lieutenant Fiona Roberts check the charts of an injured Ashmore Island boat person whilst flying en route to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

(Date taken: 18 April 2009)
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Sergeant Wayne Sturgess (Left) and Flight Lieutenant Fiona Roberts check the charts of an injured Ashmore Island boat person whilst flying en route to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

(Date taken: 18 April 2009)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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