CQ RESCUE Helicopter Service
News
Febuary 2010
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter crew is currently preparing for a search off the coast of Mackay for an overdue yacht.
Febuary 2010
The Mackay-based RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter is on its way to a property 60 kilometres north west of Clermont to retrieve a 2 year old girl.
Febuary 2010
RACQ – CQ RESCUE was tasked to Hardy Reef Pontoon to retrieve a 13 year old boy who had been stung by an Irukandji jellyfish.
Febuary 2010
Not long after retrieving a shark attack victim from the Whitsundays, the RACQ – CQ RESCUE crew was tasked to a motor vehicle accident near Glenden, west of Nebo.
Febuary 2010
A sixty year old woman from Potts Point, Sydney is lucky to be alive azfter an altercation with a 2 metre bronze whaler shark earlier today. The woman was attacked by the shark while swimming near Dent Island in the Whitsundays.
January 2010
Around 4am this morning the RACQ – CQ RESCUE crew received a call to attend a single vehicle rollover 50 kilometres south of Sarina.
January 2010
By lunchtime today, the RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter had already completed two missions.
January 2010
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter has just returned to its Mackay base after attending a cardiac arrest at Dalrymple Bay
January 2010
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter has just left Mackay bound for the Moranbah region where a 14 year old boy is missing.
January 2010
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE has again had a busy day with the retrieval of a Japanese tourist in her late twenties who took ill on Hamilton Island.
November 2009
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter has been tasked to a single vehicle roll-over South East of Glenden.
August 2009
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter is now airborne on its way to Mackay Base Hospital with a 25 year old patient on board.
April 2009
At 4.35pm the RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter left Mackay with a doctor and paramedic on board heading to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on the Fitzroy Development Road south east of Moranbah.
March 2009
The RACQ-CQ Rescue crew has rescued one of the three fishermen missing in waters near Rockhampton.
March 2009
At 8.20am this morning the RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter in Mackay was notified of a tasking to a motor vehicle accident near Capella in the Bowen Basin.
March 2009
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter is again having a busy day with the crew on their third mission today and their 6th task since the start of the month on Sunday.
Febuary 2009
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE has been tasked to a property approximately 50 kilometres west of St Lawrence where a patient is suffering from an allergic reaction.
January 2009
An action-packed eighteen hours was experienced by the RACQ – CQ RESCUE crew beginning a 2.30pm yesterday afternoon when they were dispatched to Strathfield Station west of Nebo.
November 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter has been tasked to a property south-west of Nebo to attend to a woman injured in a motor-bike accident on the property.
October 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter has been tasked to a quad bike accident close to Teemburra Dam near Eungella.
October 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter lifted off from Mackay airport at 1.50pm this afternoon on its way to a single vehicle accident at Mt Dalrymple, 60 kilometres west north west of Mackay (near Eungella).
August/September
RACQ - CQ RESCUE holds its annual appeal during the months of August and September, although donations are welcomed all year round.
August 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter is expected to land at Mackay Base Hospital around 5.15pm carrying a female occupant of a motor vehicle which rolled on the Suttor Development Road south of Glenden earlier this afternoon.
August 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter from Mackay and the RACQ – Capricorn Rescue helicopter from Rockhampton have been called to transport patients for medical care after a motor vehicle accident on the Capricorn Highway.
August 2008
Our Rescue 100 Club is thriving with not too many members to go before we reach the magic number of 100 members.
July 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter is currently en route to a motor vehicle accident on the Fitzroy Developmental Road approximately 50 kilometres south of Nebo.
July 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter located the yacht at 9.25am this morning. The crew was depolyed under the pretense that it was in danger.
July 2008
The RACQ – CQ RESCUE helicopter launched from Mackay Airport at 5.22pm, tasked by the Whitsunday Water Police in search of a kayaker
July 2008
The RACQ-CQ rescue helicopter and crew attended the site of a devestating acciedent involving a semi-trailer and a coal trian, 10 Km north of prosipne.
July 2007
During the 2006/07 financial year, the crew of RACQ - CQ RESCUE carried out 391 missions and transported 114 more patients than the previous year
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The RACQ-CQ Rescue helicopter plays a vital role in our community.
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