Military medics have daringly parachuted onto Britain’s most isolated overseas territory to provide urgent healthcare following a suspected Hantavirus infection in a historic first for the UK armed forces.
Personnel from 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M aircraft onto Tristan da Cunha, a volcanic archipelago in the South Atlantic with just 221 residents and no runway.
The operation marks the first occasion British military clinicians have been deployed via parachute for humanitarian purposes.
Oxygen reserves on the remote island had reached critical levels, making a parachute drop the only viable method of reaching the patient in time.
