Missing Women found after a 45mins search attempt of the Air Force

The Swiss Air Force helped the police of the canton Vaud successfully in the search for a missing woman.

An 89-year-old missing woman was found, albeit injured, again. This thanks to the use of a helicopter of the Swiss Air Force.
The very elderly woman had disappeared on May 28th from the hospital Lavaux in Cully, as the cantonal police reports. Police requested assistance from the air force on the morning of June 1st. An EC-635 started in Dübendorf and took on the flight operational head of the cantonal police in Lausanne-Blécherette.
The wanted person was found only three quarters of an hour later in the Lausanne area. A ground patrol rescued her and immediately took her to the University Hospital of Lausanne. Shortly after noon, the helicopter arrived back in Dübendorf.

Royal Canadian Armed Forces to upgrade the CH149 Cormorant

RCAF announced to upgrade the 14 CH149 Cormorant with Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade Program (CMLU) based on AW101-612 (Norway) and expand the fleet by up to seven additional AW101s to serve beyond 2040. The upgrade consists of an digital 360° radar, cell-phone detection system and 4-axis digital Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS).
AW101 are in military use by Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Italy, the UK and many other countries in the world.

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In 2002, one of the new CH149 was on static display on the former military airfield of Interlaken due Airmed'02 exposition. Pilots where intrigued by the very well equipped Agusta A-109K2 of the REGA nearby, but budget had not permitted to equip Canada's new SAR helicopter with FLIR and other important gadgets from the beginning.

 

 

Norway sent an SeaKing to AirMed'02 - actually the country uses 16 new AW101-Mk612

REGA introduced the A109K2

Swiss Air Force with former (Alouette III, above) and new SAR-helicopter (Super Puma)