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Article: Coastguard in double rescue
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2006
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Stornoway Coastguard airlifted an injured walker and a Portuguese
fisherman with a fish bone stuck in his thigh to Western Isles
Hospital yesterday. The 49-year-old walker was one of a party of five
walking on the Munro Bla Bheinn on Skye, when he fell down a gully.
The coastguard was alerted at 3.45pm and rescue helicopter Hotel Lima
was scrambled to take the man to hospital. The climber was winched on
board the helicopter at around 5pm and arrived at Western Isles
Hospital an hour later. The same helicopter then took off, with a
doctor on board, to fetch the Portuguese crewman, who was on the
French fishing vessel Heliotrope, around 50 miles west of the Butt of
Lewis. The fish bone was ...