Wiltshire Air Ambulance was scrambled to help deal with a car crash and a heart attack victim yesterday The crew was called out at 5pm to a woman who had had crashed her car on Salisbury Plain but was unsure of her location.
Ground units searched the area for most of the afternoon before the air ambulance began its search and found the woman in a byway.
The helicopter landed at the scene but on arrival found the woman was uninjured.
The air ambulance was then called out to Westbury at 7.15pm when an ambulance crew requested help for an 80-year-old man in Dilton Marsh, who had suffered a heart attack.
Although he had started breathing again he needed to get to hospital quickly.
The helicopter landed in a nearby field and the man was flown to the Royal United Hospital in Bath but died soon after he arrived.
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