A 32-YEAR-OLD suffering with chest pains was attended to in Hawkshead on Thursday (June 22).
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called at 2.30pm to the man.
The pains were thought to be non-life threatening and he was flown to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle for further treatment.
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He arrived in a stable condition.
The Langwathby-based GNAAS crew attended to two other incidents on Thursday.
At 4.25pm the team were called to assist a paraglider who had crashed on Melmerby Fell in Cumbria.
The woman, in her 60s, suffered minor back, neck, chest and ankle injuries.
She was airlifted to the Langwathby base where she was taken by the North West Ambulance Service, who transported her to the Cumberland Infirmary by road.
And at 7.20pm GNAAS flew to Caton, Lancaster, to help a 76-year-old male who had fallen 15 feet down a river bank.
The patient had suffered serious head, neck, chest and pelvic injuries.
He was treated on scene, before being airlifted to the Major Trauma Centre at Royal Preston Hospital.
He arrived in a serious but stable condition.
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