1 Dec, 16, Source: HeliHub.com
November 24th marked the busiest day of the year as of yet for Lincolnshire and Nottingham Air Ambulance. On average the team is called out three times a day, this past Thursday saw a total of six incidents they had to fly out to. They were called from Stamford for a truck collision, Immingham for a car crash, to Waddington for an injured cyclist as well as other incidents in Louth, Grantham and Mansfield.
As reported by Lincolnshire Live, the ambucopter averaged on 13 minutes per incident, spending a total of 164 minutes in flight. Each flight comes to a cost of £2100 for the company. Since opening in 1994, the flight team has been on 17,200 flights.
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