(Source: tn.gov)
A medical flight crew from the Tennessee National Guard conducted an emergency air evacuation mission Tuesday morning (3/15/22) after a hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park suffered a severe illness on the Appalachian Trail. Rescuers got the call shortly after 7am and just before 9am the flight crew of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter located the patient near Double Spring Gap Shelter. The hiker was hoisted into the helicopter where paramedics rendered aid as the aircraft flew to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. The entire rescue mission took less than an hour and a half. Officials did not release the name nor the condition of the patient.
(A Tennessee National Guard flight crew arrives to rescue an ill hiker on the Appalachian Trail, Mar. 15. The Tennessee National Guard conducted the emergency air evacuation mission after being notified of a severely ill hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Double Spring Gap Shelter. Courtesy photo from the Tennessee National Guard.
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