Luxembourg Air Rescue

The Luxembourg Air Rescue is a private, non-profit organization and the only organization that ensures the air rescue in Luxembourg Air Rescue and emergency can reach any point of the country within 10 minutes.

  • 2.1 Luxembourg Air Rescue
  • 2.2 ISO certificate
  • 2.3 Development of the application spectrum
  • 2.4 The Air Rescue today

Activities

Luxembourg and Greater Region

Every day there are 3 Emergency and Intensive helicopter in Luxembourg available to save lives. Overall, the LAR operates five rescue helicopters from MD902.

Worldwide

On Findel airport is the home station of the ambulance aircraft of the Air Rescue. The aircraft are suitable for day and night operations on middle and long distances and equipped for the transport of critically ill patients between hospitals, foreign withdrawals of ill and injured. As part of a Umflottung the aircraft LearJet 35A are replaced by new aircraft from the pattern LearJet 45XR. Currently, its fleet consists of two ambulance aircraft type LearJet 35A and 2 LearJet 45XR.

Organ transport

Since 2007, the LAR is due to a European tender, which she won, in charge of the team organ transport for France.

Humanitarian missions

Help with disaster relief in cooperation with the Luxembourg government, NATO and the United Nations partner of emergency.lu:

Emergency.lu an agreement between the Luxembourg Government and the Working Group is composed of HITEC Luxembourg SA and SES Astra TechCom S. A. - In partnership with Luxembourg Air Ambulance SA - On the worldwide provision of a feed solution for disaster relief and humanitarian missions. The Convention covers the installation and operation of a global satellite communications system. The Luxembourg Air Ambulance ensures the smooth running of at Findel Airport and the rapid air transport of the satellite communication system.

History

By 1988, there were no Luxembourg Air Rescue. Well had the State of Luxembourg with various emergency services abroad an agreement which allowed if necessary to resort to a rescue helicopter, but this was only true for flights from Luxembourg to a hospital in a hospital abroad. Primary missions did not exist. Professional firefighters wanted to be faster, so as to save lives in emergency cases. Thus the idea of ​​a Luxembourg Air Rescue was born. Against the resistance of the interior minister and the Protection Civile, the firefighters continued from then on for the purchase of a rescue helicopter and founded the association " Luxembourg Air Rescue".

Looking for support, the group met with Siegfried Steiger from Germany. A trained architect, had in 1979 his son Björn lost in a bike accident, because the ambulance came too late to the accident site. Steiger collected money, called the " Steiger Stiftung " to life and founded the " German Air Rescue " (DRF Air Rescue ). Steiger was ready to help the Luxembourgers and rented them one of his helicopter, a Bell Long Ranger and its crew. Since both the charge of the airport as well as the Transport Ministry ready set no suitable building for housing, was a discarded armor as a tent roof for the helicopter. As an office served a caravan. In March 1989, the helicopter has been put into operation. The costs shot Siegfried Steiger ago, the debt was repaid later.

Luxembourg Air Rescue

On 15 June 1989, the Air Rescue was awarded the status of a association of public utility. But primary missions were nevertheless still not be flown. So the Protection Civile launched a signature campaign to prevent the Air Rescue would be integrated into the emergency medical system.

In November 1991, the Air Rescue was integrated after long negotiations with the State of the SAMU system. The SAMU physicians consisted of safety on a zweiturbinigen helicopter, the Air Rescue anmietete then also in the DRF. Thus, the costs tripled. 1995 rented the Air Rescue an additional helicopter, from 1996, a second base was opened in the hospital in St. Louis Ettelbrück. Luxembourg now belonged to the countries that was supplied with the best and the best coverage with helicopters.

1995, then Hereditary Grand Duke Henri had the patronage, the club got more and more members and also increased donations. However, due to the new international JAR-OPS provisions had to commission the Air Rescue 2 modern helicopter category A. This should ensure that a helicopter with engine damage not only to the remaining, intact motor can safely land, but is still able to continue flying. The Air Rescue 2 leased -art helicopters of the brand McDonnell Douglas, the MD900 Explorer. The Luxembourg Air Rescue was the first operator in Europe that began this helicopter. The medical interior of the aircraft is the same as that in the SAMU wagons and therefore interchangeable.

In order to serve their members better, the Air Rescue 1998 decided to lease a private air ambulance. From now on, casualties could be recovered also from the far abroad. The machine, a Mitsubishi MU-2 is equipped for the transport of intensive care patients. The Air Rescue flew many missions abroad and therefore expanded its fleet in 2000 by a LearJet 35A. This global repatriation could now be carried out on their own and with their own staff under optimal conditions.

ISO certificate

In July 2002, the Air Rescue Air Rescue 1 was used as the highest quality label, the ISO 9001 certificate, awarded worldwide. It thus guarantees always controlled and therefore optimum safety and quality in the interest of the patient.

Development of the application spectrum

  • In the first years after the founding of the Air Rescue especially many ambulance services were conducted in preterm infants at specially acquired incubator, the incubator.
  • Many difficult Burned were flown abroad since Luxembourg has no special clinic for burn patients.
  • Since 1991, the Air Rescue is also involved in the SAMU system and flies so-called primary missions. This means it brings the ambulance directly to the site.
  • The Air Rescue provides for Luxembourg the " Search and Rescue " service, ie she tracks down missing persons or saves them from awkward situations. Therefore, the pilots are equipped with night vision equipment, which is usually reserved for the military.
  • Also the task of the Air Rescue includes working with the Grand Ducal Police. These services are intergral taken by the state.
  • Furthermore, the Air Rescue an accredited partner of the United Nations, and participates in international humanitarian operations. There were, for example, Missions in areas devastated by earthquakes in Iran and Morocco. The longest mission was after an earthquake in October 2005 in Pakistan. After the tsunami disaster in 2004, the Air Rescue was also associated with an aircraft in use in order to help the people there.
  • The Air Rescue has taken a new area in October 2007, by performing organ transports for the University Hospital of Strasbourg, and since July 2008, for the whole of France.
  • In 2010, the purchase of a fire water tank was adopted in cooperation with the Luxembourg Fire Department and the Ministry of Interior. The Air Rescue can assist the fire department from the air now for inaccessible fires and wildland fires.

The Air Rescue today

The Air Rescue now operates with 5 helicopters from McDonnell Douglas MD902, 2 LearJet 45 XR and 2 LearJet 35A and thus is one of the leading air ambulance company in Europe. Around the clock, 365 days, the specialists of the Air Rescue are in use to save lives.

Is out of the idea and the vision of some dedicated firefighters, thanks to the support of the Luxembourg population, a modern and highly professional organization emerged that operates to the highest safety and quality standards.

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