The Sunshine Coast-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew has winched a woman to safety after she fell down a cliff and broke her leg.
The woman was walking around a rock pool in the Bundaberg region when the incident happened.
It is believed she fell just around two metres.
An off-duty paramedic kept her stable before the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue aeromedical team arrived.
The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Flight Paramedic was winched down to the patient to assess her injuries just after 2pm.
Due to the rocky terrain and lack of landing area, the rescue crew decided it was safest to winch the QAS Flight Paramedic, along with a stretcher, down to the patient.
The helicopter pilot landed the aircraft nearby while the Flight Paramedic treated the patient and strapped her into the stretcher.
The pilot then circled back to carefully hoist the aeromedical crew member and the injured woman back into the helicopter.
The patient, aged in her 40s, was airlifted to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
