The UK's Kent Air Ambulance is due to resume operations on 2 September, flying a Eurocopter AS355F1 Twin Squirrel helicopter, leased by Medical Aviation Services, to replace a similar model to the one that crashed in late July, killing the pilot and crew. The decision follows a recent incident in the county when the Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre, based at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, was forced to request assistance from the Belgian air force to deploy a Westland Sea King helicopter to take a critically injured child from a hospital to a specialist unit in London.
Source: Flight International
