The Toowoomba RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew has winched an injured woman to safety, after she fell around twenty metres, while climbing Table Top Mountain.
She reportedly tumbled down the cliff face, then landed and was trapped in a fork of a tree, on a difficult to access and extremely rocky section of the mountain.
The rescue aircraft was tasked around 10.40am.
The pilot landed on the mountain and the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctor and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Flight Paramedic set out on foot, to locate the injured woman.
Once they reached her, the helicopter crew then flew overhead and winched down the team’s medical equipment, so they could work with other QAS paramedics to treat her injuries.
The aeromedical team worked with Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) personnel, Queensland Police Service (QPS) and QAS paramedics to carefully extract the woman from the tree.
They then transferred her to a stretcher and prepared her to be winched into the helicopter.
The doctor and paramedic were also winched back up to the aircraft, along with their equipment.
The woman, aged in her 40s, was then flown to Toowoomba Hospital, in a serious but stable condition.
She suffered leg and head injuries.
