After the withdrawal of the helicopter service from Penzance, Skybus has become the last link from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly.
Earlier this week residents on the Isles of Scilly said transport links needed to be improved to the islands when the year-round helicopter service ceases.
The Children's Air Ambulance Service helicopter, based at Coventry Airport, will initially be used to transport specialist paediatric medical staff.
The announcement comes after the closure of the rival British International Helicopter (BIH) service from Penzance.
From there, it was flown to Al-Arish airport, just south of the Egypt-Israel border, where it was ferried to Ramallah via helicopter for the burial service.
The service says the helicopter will be used for pre-booked urgent transfers, not emergency pick ups.
The second person killed "was in close proximity" to the helicopter, a London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said, but gave no more details.
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The charity has recently rebranded itself as The Air Ambulance Service, and plans to offer a new national service using one helicopter to cover England.
The crash happened at around 8 p.m. and involved an AH-1W Cobra carrying two crew members and a UH-1 Huey utility helicopter with the other five service members from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Lt.
Now one charity says it wants to start a new service - a national helicopter dedicated to transporting sick children between hospitals.
The Chinook is a heavyweight helicopter, capable of carrying between 33 and 55 service personnel.
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On Marine One, flying back, somebody on the helicopter said -- somebody who was in the service, in the military service, thanked the President for making the trip.
It hopes its other helicopter based at Marden in Kent will develop a night service within the next two years.
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For the Wiltshire trial Mr Paxton had offered his time and helicopter for three days per week to assist the fire service with major incidents such as flooding.
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The helicopter's paramedics are provided by the South West Ambulance Service Trust.
North Wales fire service said it was working with police and using the force helicopter to look out for the perpetrators.
The exercise, staged by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in Glasgow, aimed to prepare crews for emergencies like the helicopter crash in central London in January.
The body in the reservoir was found by police helicopter at 1605 BST on Friday after a search of the area and the fire service helped with the recovery of the body.
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The Merseyside Police helicopter could be scrapped under plans to merge regional operations and establish a National Police Air Service (NPAS).
"The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service essentially brings the emergency department and the intensive care unit to the patient by helicopter or plane, " he added.
"We're working with Roads Service to get roads cleared but in some areas we are going to have to helicopter crews and materials in, " said NIE spokeswoman Julia Carson.
"We're on a moving boat and we don't have too much space to manoeuvre, to let the helicopter land, so it can be quite dangerous, " Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.
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