Keewatin Air is vowing to make sure medevac services continue after one of its planes overran the runway in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, on Friday morning. The Beechcraft King Air B-200 plane was carrying four Keewatin Air crew members — two flight crew and two medics — during the landing at about 6:45 a.m. ET, said airline president Jason Kendall in an email to CBC News. Sanikiluaq is located on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Everyone on board received medical evaluation at the local health centre, Kendall said, without offering any details of ...
to medevac service as a result of this incident," Kendall said. A spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) had earlier said the plane was carrying two crew and two passengers...
Scandinavian airline SAS has converted its last Boeing 737 into a medevac plane to fly patients from Ukraine to hospitals in Europe.
A medevac plane that overran the runway in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut in 2021 was faced with strong crosswinds and a lack of precise data on the aircraft's "performance limitations," according to the Tran...
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital...
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The Omsk medical team relented only after a charity that had organized the medevac plane revealed that the German doctors examined the politician and said he was fit to be transported....
Understanding International Medical Evacuation ; Medical evacuation transportation, also known as medevac or medevac transport, is utilized for patients who require hospitalization or cannot be transported via ground ambulance. These patients are typically transferred using fixed-wing aircraft, equipped with highly trained medical personnel specialized in medical evacuation transportation. Their expertise ensures stability during the transfer, aiming to reach the nearest qualified medical facili...
SAS MEDEVAC - Boeing 737- 700 ; SAS has a long-standing agreement with the Scandinavian authorities to provide a ‘hospital plane’ in crisis situations and for medical transport missions, so-called MEDEVAC flights. The aircraft is a regular Boeing 737 passenger plane that has been converted into a flying hospital, with medical equipment and hospital beds. The SAS flight crew on these operations are dedicated and trained for these challenging tasks, where most of the cabin attendants have nurs...
Hartwell was piloting a medevac plane in the Northwest Territories from Cambridge Bay to Yellowknife carrying a nurse and two patients when it crashed near Hottah Lake, south of Great Bear...