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Rescue Co-ordination Center

Reel Number: 220346-10

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: Scott AFB, Illinois

TC Begins: 10:45:24

TC Ends: 10:50:10

Duration: 00:04:46

Rescue Co-ordination Center Air Force Now Telephones ring, Air Force Rescue Coordination Center - man picks up phone. Base entrance. Interior offices. 10:45:52 Small private plane taking off. AV houses. Center Operations Room w/ men at desks, huge map on wall. Officer explains that much work if searching for overdue or lost planes. Montage people on telephones - civilians. Men in offices working. 10:47:23 Montage various rescue teams including helicopter rescue & ambulance. Officer explains how FAA can help locate downed planes w radar data & use of ELT - Emergency locator transmitter. Training program & search team w/ tracking device. NASA satellite model. Transfer of patient by helicopter - County Sherrif requesting Medevac - helicopter in flight. 10:49:30 Stills Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption. Aerials of helicopters moving over area.

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