Duke Of Cambridge Traveled With Accident Victim In An Ambulance

Normally, co-pilot Prince William waits in the helicopter during rescue flights while EMTs attend to the person who they have come to transport. But on Tuesday, the Duke of Cambridge got out of the aircraft and went to the side of a man who had been injured by a falling tree branch after flying him to a hospital, reassuring the man as he was placed in a ground ambulance and even riding with him for the last leg of his journey.

The U.K. newspaper The Telegraph reports that on landing at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Prince William left the cockpit and assisted the medical crew as they transferred the patient to a gurney and then into the ground ambulance. He then got into the ambulance and rode with the patient on the short drive from the helipad to the ER.

He was later driven back to the helipad, chatted with his colleagues as they loaded the stretcher back into the aircraft, and waved to the two female ambulance drivers.

The paper reports that it is the first time that the Duke has helped with the medical tasks since volunteering as a pilot for the air ambulance service.

Prince William works for a the East Anglian Air Ambulance charity air ambulance service based at Cambridge Airport. He flies an EC145 T2 helicopter. He is formally employed by Bond Air Services and receives a salary that he donates to charity. The service conducts about 150 flights per month, according to the paper.

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