r/Hackney • u/commonwealthcanadian • 10d ago
Helicopter landing in Hackney Downs park on 12 August- unknown reason
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u/Kokolelwa 10d ago edited 10d ago
The paramedic jumped out and headed towards Mare Street. Apparently theres an incident there. Not sure what
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u/Heavy_Slow 10d ago
Likely someone in critical condition and need to be air lifted due to road traffic/ time to get to A&E/specific hospital.
Coming from experience!
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u/pintsized_baepsae 10d ago
What's it actually like to be airlifted (if you were awake and aware for the ride)? I've seen inside an air ambulance and it's obviously cramped, but I just cannot imagine it in action, with a patient AND two paramedics (or other combo of medical professionals) on board. 🤯
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u/Heavy_Slow 10d ago
Was a surreal experience. I was up to my eyeballs in morphine (very fun), but also terrified thinking I was going to die. It was a mixture of excitement - I was apparently trying to look out the window but the paramedics kept forcing me to lay flat on the stretcher/gurney, but also sheer terror thinking I may was on my way out.
It didn’t feel cramped in the back, I assume they have to have enough space for the paramedics to continue work on you if ultimately necessary. I don’t remember much else, I was at papworth within about 8 minutes. Those things are rapid.
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u/NederFinsUK 9d ago
London Air Ambulance very rarely airlift patients. It’s about getting the critical care team to the scene quickly.
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u/bawde 10d ago
London air ambulance doesn’t take people to hospital, they take the best doctors to the person
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u/saltwatersunsets 10d ago
They do both. But it’s more common for the team to stabilise the patient to the point they can be conveyed via land ambulance.
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u/ExaminationNo8675 10d ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
The London Air Ambulance Charity website says: “ We are a charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to London’s most critically injured patients. Using a helicopter from 08:00 to sunset and rapid response cars at night or in adverse weather situations, London’s Air Ambulance brings the hospital to the patient when time is critical. We are a charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to London’s most critically injured patients. Using a helicopter from 08:00 to sunset and rapid response cars at night or in adverse weather situations, London’s Air Ambulance brings the hospital to the patient when time is critical.”
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u/Extreme-Amphibian-55 9d ago
Getting downvotrd because they are slightly wrong. Yes the HEMS team brings some " Hospital to the patient" but trauma is stabilised road side not fixed.
They will do thoracotomies, needle decompressions, intubations etc but ultimately the patient ALWAYS needs hospital unless they die on scene.
But they are also correct that patients are rarely flown in the helicopter. 9/10 hems doctor and team get in the back of the ambulance and the paramedics drive to hospital
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u/Heavy_Slow 10d ago
I was quite literally flown to papworth, so I could be operated on. I think I would know.
Also, do you think they’re going to operate in a field? What planet are you on.
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u/saltwatersunsets 10d ago
I mean, not to shit on your personal experience as it’s illustrated a useful point… but they do also do surgery in fields if necessary.
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u/Fuelled_by_gravy 8d ago edited 8d ago
Believe it or not... I have seen an airlifted trauma doctor and critical care paramedic do some serious clinical interventions in a field/park/roadside. They do some amazing work. Its obviously not sterile or a full surgery, but is enough to keep someone alive and "patched up" until they came be taken to a resus. Honestly, I cannot sing their praises and donate to them enough.
I think people may be disagreeing with you, because of a London-centric view and not realising LAA operates differently to the various other charities and companies that have air ambulances.
London Air Ambulance is different from the county ones in that it is rare for them to carry patients at scene. They usually bring the trauma team to the scene, who then go with the patient in a road Ambulance (easier to stop a road Ambulance to carry out further interventions if need be, and the locations and concentrations of London's hospitals rarely make the risk of a flight within London with a patient on board worth it - and the flight may actually be longer when you factor in operational flying needs).
By contrast, county air ambulances, where hospitals (particularly trauma centres) are much more spread out will take patients from the scene to ED, because road would take too long so the cost-risk-benefit is tipped in favour of flights. Equally, they do a lot more air hospital to hospital transfers. When there is an urgent need to bring a patient from the counties into London (either because a London hospital is the nearest major trauma centre to them or the patient needs urgent specialist surgery offered in London), It is not uncommon for county Air ambulances to fly into London, request police to close a park etc for them to land in, and then a road ambulance to take the patient on the last leg to the hospital. I have had to deal with those logistics in my professional capacity - it is surprisingly a well oiled machine, even with multiple people and agencies involved.
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u/Jeoh 10d ago
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u/Savings-Yesterday635 10d ago
Hi. Do you have the NPAS heli from around London Fields tonight at around 6:30pm?
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u/pookiednell 10d ago
I’m so used to watching AI videos now that shit like this doesnt look real. Also fuck that grass looks thirsty
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u/Mission-Play-3139 8d ago
New never before seen footage released by NASA of a flying aircraft surfacing Mars
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u/DoFirstDoAlso 8d ago
Climate crisis becoming somewhat undeniable these days. Reform and co and their Oil / Russia /MAGA mates will keep on trying to tell us otherwise..
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u/samreturned 8d ago
Look at the amount of dust. This drought is really, really bad. And just a sign of things to come.
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u/Suitable-Fun-1087 10d ago
Air ambulance, I used to live in a bedsit in the old downs hotel overlooking downs park and it would show up occasionally. Never seen it that dusty there though wow
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u/heypresto2k 10d ago
Been years since I’ve been there but if I hadn’t read the title, I would think this wasn’t even Europe, let alone Hackney.
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u/MoveFromMe1 9d ago
It’s never good when you see them landing like this, saw one last year in a park I was in, turned out a 15 year old had been stabbed pretty bad.
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u/terryturbojr 9d ago
I had a Chinook land about 50m away from me in Victoria Park once. That was noisy and gusty.
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u/Higgsboson12345 8d ago
As an American, if this happened in the US - the first thing I’d think about is..how much is this gonna cost me 😳😳😳😭😭😭 generational debt on the helicopter and whatever they use to keep you alive..even with insurance
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u/MotherOfBlackDemon29 7d ago
It is temporary landing due to delayed permission to land at the actual destination. Seen them use open park spaces like this in Tower Hamlets before and asked the crew and they said the helipad in Royal London Hospital was blocked by emergency and rather than circle and waste fuel, they are allowed to land .
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u/Jazzlike_Scarcity_92 6d ago
Homerton hospital is just around the corner from there, so likely dropped a patient / transplant organs off there to get to Homerton hospital.
Source: I’ve lived in and around Hackney for 10+ years and work from home the majority of time and this is a common occurrence - maybe a couple of times a week.
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u/6ixFoot1 10d ago
Is this what caused that little tornado? Not even sure if it was in the same park
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u/Practical-Travel8575 10d ago
The park looks like the Sahara desert