A paraglider pilot (m, 57) was reported to have a bruised back and leg as well as being unable to walk off the hill, following a bad landing which included a fall from about 5 metres. Once having found him, team members assessed him, ‘packaged’ him in a vacuum mattress and brought him down to a team Land Rover on a stretcher. He was driven to the road-head and handed over to YAS paramedics.
Volunteer hours: 60
Feedback: A CT scan showed that the flyer had sustained a hair-line fracture of the pelvis, some internal bleeding and fractures to the transverse processes on the impact side of four lumbar vertebrae. We hope he’ll be ‘flying fit’ again, soon.