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Old 23rd Apr 2016, 08:28
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Strange article. It's more than half hour's drive from the hospital to Trondheim airport, which is shared with the airforce, assuming this is where the F16 took off. One would assume that just stuffing the equipment into an air ambulance helicopter, or just any helicopter, would have been faster, even if one accounts for the heli's slower travel speed.
The air ambulance did fly the package from the hospital pad in Trondheim to Ørland/ENOL where the F-16 was waiting. (A 15 min hop in the EC135)
Even with transfer time I guess it took less than an hour door to door.

Trondheim-Bodø in the EC135 is around 2 hrs, DCT.
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