Flight Lieutenant Wales saves teenager from drowning

**bb1** Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:45 am

PRINCE WILLIAM RESCUES DROWNING TEENAGER

By Richard Palmer, Royal Correspondent
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PRINCE William and his helicopter crew saved a teenage girl from drowning yesterday.
The 16-year-old girl got into difficulties after going to help her 13-year-old sister in the sea off Anglesey.

The girls, from Herefordshire, were swept away by a rip-tide while body boarding during a family holiday.

A surfer rescued the younger girl and took her ashore while William and his four-man RAF crew were scrambled to rocks at Silver Bay.

Flight Lieutenant Wales, 30, piloted the Sea King while Master Aircrew Harry Harrison pulled the 16-year-old girl out of the water and winched her to safety.

She was reunited with her sister and mother and all three were flown to a hospital in Bangor.

Winchman Harrison said: “When I got to her the elder girl was clearly exhausted and was going under the water for what was the very last time.”

The Ministry of Defence said: “Two teenage girls were rescued in one of the fastest and shortest search and rescue operations undertaken in recent years by the duty RAF search and rescue helicopter crew from RAF Valley.

I should think the girl got an even bigger shock when she saw who was flying the chopper.......