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Re: Plane Spotters Corner
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Quote from The Sun: A US military helicopter has destroyed a hospital's helipad - stopping air ambulances with critically ill patients from landing.
The £50m USAF Boeing Osprey helicopter - which features tilt rotors - had landed at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on Wednesday during a training exercise.
Dramatic footage filmed on Wednesday shows the huge Bell Boeing CV22B Osprey coming in to land on the helipad.
The USAF plane rested on the ground for a few moments, before getting ready to take off again.
But just as it began to leave the helipad, the whole structure was torn apart, seemingly by the force of the helicopter's propellors - with huge chunks of debris flying into the air.
It has left the helipad unuseable - with air ambulance patients now having to be dropped off at Cambridge City Airport, three miles away, and transferred to the hospital by ambulance.
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