The most pertinent post so far. A medical emergency at 0200 on a remote island. The crew may have been on standby (they may have been in bed asleep for all we know at this point), but asleep or wide awake I doubt they were expecting to be asked to fly at this hour. What a difficult position for a pilot to be in.
Taken from post #74!
The night before, me and my brother-in-law, we watched the chopper come in,” McIntosh told The Guardian yesterday.
“We watched it land and in about half an hour it [went] back up.
“As it [went] back up, it didn’t get very high. It went up and in about five minutes it just ‘boop’.