Life Flight

Each week 28 people need time-critical aeromedical care. With your support, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter and Air Ambulance Planes are there in their moment of need.

Westpac Rescue Helicopter

Meet Bentley from Kāpiti

What should have been a moment of joy quickly turned into distress when newborn Bentley didn’t respond as normal.

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Meet Pat from Kāpiti

A walk on a friend's farm quickly took a turn for 85-year-old grandmother, Pat.

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Meet Jarrod from Wairarapa

It was a wet day at work for Jarrod, who was driving along the rugged Mount Bruce landscape when suddenly he found himself rolling down a steep, grassy hill.

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Meet Kaz from Kāpiti

As Kaz lay in agony in the Maungakotukutuku hills with life-threatening injuries, the sound of the whirring blades of the Westpac Chopper gave her hope.

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Meet Santiago from Wellington

Kylie, her husband Fede and their two children went for a Sunday hike in the Remutaka Forest Park when disaster struck.

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Meet Alice from Paraparaumu

Alice was winched from the Paraparaumu bush after a severe fall.

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Meet Zachariah from Palmerston North

Being helped by a manual oxygen pump, premature baby Zachariah needed to get to Wellington Hospital fast.

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Meet Pip from Feilding

Thanks to your support, Pip was able to recover from a brain aneurysm, a condition that has a 60% survival rate.

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Meet Stefan from Wairarapa

A routine tonsillectomy turned into an emergency transfer from Masterton to Wellington for four-year-old Stefan, his mum, and baby sister.

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Meet Lincoln from Upper Hutt

Floating alone, freezing, 300 metres off the coast - Lincoln grew weaker by the second.

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