The Air 5 police helicopter extracted an injured backcountry skier from Cayoosh Mountain on March 29
A helicopter flying toward the slope was a welcome sight for a backcountry skier who was injured in the Duffey Lake area northeast of Pemberton on Wednesday, March 29—but it was also an unexpected one.
The Air 5 crew, including one member of the RCMP Critical Incident Program and another from the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team, located the injured skier in steep terrain and successfully performed a hoist rescue. The helicopter landed at the Pemberton Airport 51 minutes after taking off from Whistler, where BC Emergency Health Services were waiting to transport the rescue subject to a local hospital “with serious injuries,” according to a news release.
Pemberton SAR was initially mobilized for the March 29 call, RCMP Air Services Special Const. Paul Copeland confirmed, but “it seemed like they wouldn’t be able to respond for a few hours, and since we were potentially pushing daylight, it made sense for us to do the rescue," the pilot said. "But we had that ongoing dialogue with them. Basically, our goal was obviously to get the patient to medical help as soon as possible.
The Pemberton SAR team was initiating that response and preparing to lift off from its Pemberton Airport base when they received word from RCMP dispatch that Air 5 happened to be in the area, and planned to conduct a flyover to try and locate the subject. "Any assistance—especially if it's by helicopter—we would certainly welcome," said MacKenzie, "as we did."
Expect to see B.C. RCMP's Air 5 helicopter responding to more SAR calls in the future Though police work will remain the Air 5 helicopter’s first priority, “The long-term intention of the aircraft was to help out more with SAR, when we could,” said Copeland, who previously flew for Blackcomb Helicopters.
The Air 5 is a provincial asset most frequently used to support the RCMP’s Emergency Response Team , and to transport members—like its dive team, for example—to sites across the province as needed. RCMP used the aircraft to conduct the hoist rescue of an injured ERT police officer on one previous occasion, in B.C.’s Interior, in February 2022.
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