BBC Helicopter Heroes. Paragliding Accident

The rescue of Sam Rose by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, July 2007. The hill is known as 'Pule' and it's on the A62 between Huddersfield and Oldham. Also starring other pilots, Keith Phythian, Steve Gray, Jim Marshall, Justin Halliwell and Robert Shaw (that's me!!)

The BBC gave my father-in-law Sam Rose a preview copy DVD of the entire episode several weeks before public broadcast as a gift and thank you for the use of video footage.

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[melvin8181]

dont suppose you have got footage of when the air ambulance went to sherburn in helmet

[lookupparagliding]

I'll have a word with Sam, the BBC sent him a DVD of a few episodes. Do you know which episode it was???

[P4rtis4n]

this is why things like team-building and initiative exercises are so important to such services. Good stuff!

[melvin8181]

yes i meant elmet

[JayEey]

Sherburn in Elmet ya mean?

[melvin8181]

i think it was the episode shown on the 7th sept.but i see they are repeating at the moment on bbc 1 at 7.30pm.

[RobClubley]

Great stuff. So glad Sam's okay.