Getting a bit medical but
Intubation in flight is quite feasible if the aircraft is designed with the doctor at the head of the patient. However, the definitive treatment would not have been a neurosurgeon but an anaesthetist and anaesthesia. So if you are at 1000 feet over open ground it makes sense to land and intubate, if only so as to be able to lay out drugs and equipment with the certainty that they are not going to shoot off around the cabin. Once this is achieved you have bought significant time for imaging and if necessary the neurosurgeon!
It is gratifying to see a HEMS mission where it appears a life was truly saved. Lets hope the final outcome is not as bad as we fear.