The Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew airlifted two men, both in their 50s, after the light aircraft they were in crashed near a Noosa North Shore airstrip on Sunday 4 January.
The rescue capped off a busy weekend for LifeFlight, after its Bundaberg crew performed two back-to-back rescues at near-Gympie locations the previous day.
A spokesperson said LifeFlight was tasked at 8am to join a multi-agency air crash response involving ambulance, police and fire services.
They found the crash site in swampland near the beach.
Both men walked away from the wreckage and were winched aboard the chopper for the flight to Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
One man had minor back injuries and the other minor knee and chest injuries.
The Saturday rescues, both within a five-hour period, involved an injured walker in bushland to Gympie region’s near-north and an unwell patient on a cruise ship east of K’gari.
A spokesperson said the Bundaberg crew was tasked at 1.40pm to rescue a woman who slipped and fell at a popular national park waterfall area in the Fraser Coast region.
A LifeFlight rescue crewman and Queensland Ambulance Service flight paramedic were winched to the scene.
The flight paramedic worked alongside local ambos to treat the woman, in her 40s, for a lower leg fracture.
She was winched into the aircraft and flown to Hervey Bay Hospital.
Then, at 6.05pm came the call to airlift a woman in her 70s, who had become ill on a cruise ship 31km east of Orchid Beach.
The critical care LifeFlight doctor, Queensland Ambulance Service flight paramedic and LifeFlight rescue crewman were winched to the deck of the ship to treat the patient, who was then winched aboard the chopper and flown to Bundaberg Hospital.
