In 2008 BAESS members were pleased to support -
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PULLING TOGETHER
for HM Forces Injured In Action
Saturday 15 March 2008 at Birmingham Airport in support of
Royal Centre for Defence Medicine,
Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham
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The Airport Police Unit in conjunction with West Midlands
Ambulance, West Midlands Fire Service, Birmingham
International Airport Fire Service, The Airport Company,
Flybe and Pertemps organised an event to raise money for
soldiers who become injured whilst serving their country.
Flights from Afghanistan and Iraq regularly arrive into
Birmingham International Airport with injured military
personnel before transferring by road to Selly Oak Hospital.
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The first phase of this event was a "Plane Pull" using a
Flybe BAe 146-300 aircraft, attempting to pull it 100 metres
across the Elmdon apron.
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Let the plane take the strain!
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Inspector Williams, Deputy Commander of the Airport Police Unit,
explains the aim of the event to Central TV
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"Pull complete" - the group photograph! - the "team"
consisted of members of the local Emergency services
supported by the Armed Forces
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Royal Air Force C 17 Globemaster ZZ174 visited Birmingham in
support of the event and parked on the former Runway 06/24
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The C 17 pilot explains the cockpit - the aircraft can fly non stop
from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Birmingham
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The second phase of the charity event was to recreate the journey
the wounded take from the airport to the Royal Centre of Defence
Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham....
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.... by carrying a stretcher and "patient" starting from disembarking
the C 17 and then off to Selly Oak - a distance of 14 miles via the
major commercial centres of south Birmingham
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Mission complete the RAF C 17 departs back to Brize Norton
off Runway 15
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For more information on this charity see -
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