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The Air Service Corps is responsible for air search and rescue missions in Taiwan. Tafen Valley is located in Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung. It is a well-known mountaineering route and is often visited by mountaineers.
The air crew went to the Taffin Valley Mountain House to rescue the injured mountaineers. (Provided by Air Service Corps)
The First Team of the Third Service Brigade of the Air Service Corps dispatched Black Hawk helicopters this morning (26th) to the mountain house in Tafen Valley, Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung City to rescue the mountain disaster. They took a 35-year-old male mountaineer surnamed Lin with a severely sprained foot down the mountain and successfully completed the mission.
The first team of the 3rd Service Brigade of Kaohsiung Xiaogang Resident Service Corps received the rescue mission for injured people at the Tafen Valley Mountain House at 9:00 pm on the 25th. The message pointed out that a group of people entered the mountain from Xiangyang Section 2 on the 23rd and were expected to go down the mountain from Dongpu on September 28. One of the mountaineers, surnamed Lin, had a severely sprained foot and was waiting for rescue at the Tafen Valley Mountain House in Taoyuan District.
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After checking the weather today, the Air Service Corps dispatched aircraft NA-712 to perform the rescue mission. The mission aircraft took off from Kaohsiung Airport at 6:56 a.m., and used its maximum horsepower to climb to the target area of Tafen Valley Mountain House. It arrived at the target area at 7:44 to pick up the injured person on the flight, and landed at Longxiang Riverside Park at 8:16. The patient was transferred to an ambulance for medical treatment, and the mission was successfully completed.
The Air Service Corps handed the injured to ambulance personnel for medical treatment and completed the rescue mission. (Provided by Air Service Corps)

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