Soap opera ‘celebrates’ with air ambulance crash
UK soap opera Casualty will be celebrating its 30th anniversary by airing an episode on the BBC in which an air ambulance will crash into the famous TV hospital.
Video: The cryptic trailer for the 30th anniversary special
UK soap opera Casualty will be celebrating its 30th anniversary by airing an episode on the BBC in which an air ambulance will crash into the famous TV hospital. The show is the longest running medical drama in the world and follows the lives of nurses and doctors in the fictional Holby City Hospital’s accident and emergency department.
The 30th anniversary special will feature a pertinent story line that will see an air ambulance that is carrying patients to the hospital crash into the side of the building after an in-air collision with a drone.
The show’s producer Erika Hossington told Radio Times that the show’s creators always tried to portray accidents that have happened in real life, and worked closely with the Association of Air Ambulances for seven months in order to treat the situation with respect: “Every accident we feature in the show has always happened for real – so we have to apply huge sensitivity to that. They [the Association of Air Ambulances] came in to meet with us and we had various ideas about how the helicopter could crash and the drone suggestion came from them.”
She continued: “It's not happened in the UK before but it has happened elsewhere, and it is something the service is incredibly worried about.”