US Coast Guard medevacs child from cruise ship

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17 Jul 2019 | Mandy Langfield
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A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hoisted a seven-year-old girl, a parent and a nurse from the Cruise Ship Celebrity Summit

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hoisted a seven-year-old girl, a parent and a nurse from the Cruise Ship Celebrity Summit Monday, on 8 July, from over 200 miles east of Virginia, medevacing her to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk. The cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard to request assistance with a girl who was experiencing abdominal pain while enroute from New Jersey to Bermuda.

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick

US Coast Guard District 5

US Coast Guard video.

HEMS/SAR
17 Jul 2019
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Mandy Langfield

Mandy Langfield is Director of Publishing for Voyageur Publishing & Events. She was Editor of AirMed&Rescue from December 2017 until April 2021. Her favourite helicopter is the Chinook, having grown up near an RAF training ground!