Plane crash survivors found on Blue Mountain

published: Monday | August 11, 2008 Staff at the University Hospital of the West Indies rush one of the two men who were yesterday rescued by members of the Jamaica Defence Force air wing to the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. The men's aircraft went down in Portland on Friday. - Junior Dowie/Staff Photographer A risky search and rescue mission, involving members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) air wing, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Caribbean Aviation Centre, ended yesterday with the successful location of two men whose plane went down in Portland Friday afternoon. A JDF helicopter flew the men to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) about noon yesterday, where they were met by hospital staff who hurriedly transported them on stretchers to the Accident and Emergency Department.... [read full story]