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An RACQ LifeFlight helicopter comes in to land at Kingaroy Hospital … inter-hospital transfers were also a large part of the Toowoomba-based helicopter’s workloads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 20, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toowoomba has retained its title as the busiest RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter base, according to figures released on Wednesday by LifeFlight.<\/p>\n

The Toowoomba helicopter helped 656 people during the past 12 months and spent 854 hours in the air.<\/p>\n

The missions were valued at about $16.4 million but were free for patients.<\/p>\n

The helicopter was tasked to 68 motor vehicle incidents, including road crashes as well as motorbike, quad bike and other off-road crashes.<\/p>\n

Motor vehicle incidents were the second most common mission type.<\/p>\n

The Bundaberg-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter also services the South Burnett region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, one out of every three call-outs for the Bundaberg crew was to help a person injured in a motor vehicle crash or a fall, or who had gone missing.<\/p>\n

The statistics show the Bundaberg helicopter helped 287 people, spent almost 400 hours flying with missions valued at about $7.2 million.<\/p>\n

Top 5 mission types for Toowoomba RACQ LifeFlight Rescue:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Serious illness\/infection (78)<\/p>\n

2. Motor vehicle incidents (76)<\/p>\n

3. Cardiac (68)<\/p>\n

4. Respiratory (not COVID-19) (68)<\/p>\n

5. Falls (41)<\/p>\n

Top 5 mission types for Bundaberg RACQ LifeFlight Rescue:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Motor vehicle accidents (32), Falls (32)<\/p>\n

2. Searches (30)<\/p>\n

3. Cardiac (29)<\/p>\n

4. Serious illness\/infection (27)<\/p>\n

LifeFlight provides its services via a service agreement with the State Government, the sponsorship of RACQ and profit-for-purpose social enterprises, however a spokesperson said the organisation relied on community help make up nearly 30 per cent of funding every year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 2021-22 financial year, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue\u2019s community helicopters, air ambulance jets, critical care doctors, flight nurses and flight paramedics helped a record 6825 people.<\/p>\n

LifeFlight\u2019s Toowoomba and Roma-based Surat Gas Aeromedical Service (SGAS) helicopters also airlifted 86 patients.<\/p>\n

This included flying people in need of medical care from remote Arrow Energy, Origin Energy, Shell QGC and Santos sites, as well as performing community missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toowoomba has retained its title as the busiest RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter base, according to figures released on Wednesday by LifeFlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":321621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,3],"tags":[1551],"yoast_head":"\nRoad Crashes Keep Choppers Busy - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Toowoomba has retained its title as the busiest RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter base, according to figures released on Wednesday by LifeFlight.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/07\/20\/road-crashes-keep-choppers-busy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Road Crashes Keep Choppers Busy - 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