‘It could have landed on top of someone, or there could have been other aircraft coming into the estate – we do have a landing area here.

Rescue call: The Surrey Air Ambulance helicopter We have people working in the grounds, including gardeners, and if they have protective earphones on they can’t hear anything. I understand it was an emergency, but they should have notified us.

His head of security confirmed the helicopter had landed, saying: ‘It just plonked down outside the house, landing on private ground without permission, and that was the issue. The sheik is fifth on Forbes magazine’s global ‘rich list’ with a £9billon fortune. All family members have codenames and are accompanied by security guards with radios.Īny routes the family travel along are always checked out first and if they venture on to the common to ride, protection officers track their movements. The racehorse-owning sheik, who is Crown Prince of Dubai and a friend of the Queen, has tight security at his £75million Longcross House estate.Ī vast surveillance operation secures the 30 apartments and 90 acres of garden to protect the sheik’s children from kidnap. The injured rider, in her 40s, was stabilised and then airlifted to hospital. ‘There was a paramedic already with her, who had arrived by car, but I think the helicopter crew wanted to reach her quickly and transport her to hospital.’ She fell off her horse while it was cantering and landed on her head and was unconscious. ‘It took another 20 minutes before they finally reached the woman.

‘But the guard just replied, “You’ll have to take off again then.” The paramedic talked to the doctor with him and then the helicopter took off again. ‘The paramedic told him that they had to get to someone who was badly injured. Paramedics had been about to use bolt-cutters to cut the 6ft security fence around Sheik Mohammed Al Maktoum’s mansion to reach the rider lying on neighbouring Chobham Common in Surrey.īut a security guard told them to stop – despite the crew being allowed by law to land anywhere and damage property to get to a patient.Ī fellow horse-rider who saw the accident said: ‘The guard said, “Sorry mate, you can’t cut the fence.” The helicopter had to take off and land elsewhere, meaning there was a 20-minute delay in reaching the woman, who had fallen on her head and suffered a neck injury. The stunned crew of an air ambulance were ordered off the estate of a billionaire sheik after landing there to rescue an unconscious horse rider. First of all, This was PDP's idea and Obasanjo paid for it, Jonathan paid for it, all of them paid for it, Except the Eastern Ports never functioned probably because all those contracts and monies to dredge, build, repair ports went to voicemailīuhari talked and did, NPA then decides to use this port, i presume it'll not be to decongest LagPorts alone, once traffic starts arriving at Eastern Ports then economy is definitely growing there, Job opportunities, infrastructures, investments, e.t.Billionaire: Sheik Mohammed Al Maktoum at Ascot racecourse with his wife, Princess Haya of Jordan

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