Highlands air ambulance returns to the skies
The air ambulance helicopter serving the Highlands is back in service after being grounded briefly for safety checks.
It is one of 22 EC135s operated by Bond Air Services on behalf of police and ambulance services throughout the UK.
They were all grounded on Wednesday when a fault was discovered in the fuel indication system of an air ambulance south of the border.
It was an EC135 operated by Police Scotland that crashed on to a Glasgow pub two weeks ago with the loss of 10 lives.
Each aircraft was inspected and those confirmed as having no fault – including the Inverness one – were returned to service.
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) said: "The EC135 air ambulance helicopter based in Inverness has been cleared by Bond to resume flying operations and is now operational. The EC135 air ambulance helicopter based in Glasgow has not yet been cleared to fly."
He added: "The Scottish Ambulance Service continues to operate normal contingency measures whereby, in addition to the Inverness based air ambulance, Coastguard and military helicopters, Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance helicopter or SAS fixed wing aircraft will be available to transfer any patients who require air transport."
