Poor Injured Hiker Subjected To Nightmarish Helicopter Rescue From Hell - helicopter resue.mp4

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This probably isn’t the worst helicopter rescue of all time, but it’s enough to
make a person consider whether it wouldn’t be preferable to die of exposure on a
desert mountain, slowly baking to death under a relentless sun.

The setting is Piestewa Peak, a peak in the Phoenix Mountains, in, well,
Phoenix. Firefighters were called to help a 74-year-old hiker who’d suffered an
injury on the mountain Tuesday morning. According to a FOX 10 Phoenix report,
firefighters determined that “the best course of action” would be to airlift the
woman to an area trauma center, which in this case apparently required strapping
her to a gurney dangling from the bottom of a helicopter and towing her out of
there. This either did not go as planned, or the way they plan things in Phoenix
is designed to discourage anyone from ever climbing mountains within city limits
ever again.

The violent spinning experienced by the poor woman was reportedly caused by air
turbulence from the helicopter’s rotor, and not by rescuers tying the line
directly to the rotor as a form of sadistic punishment. However bad the injury
was, this was worse!



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