An injured boy needed to be driven 35 kilometres to Royal Hobart Hospital on Wednesday morning, after the rescue helicopter sent for medivac broke down after landing.
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The boy, a rower with the Hutchins School team, suffered a broken arm after two boats collided in the water during a morning rowing meet at the club.
He was stable in hospital, according to the school's director of rowing, Tom Allwright.
An officer with the helicopter said the starter engine had failed after the injured boy was loaded into the cabin.
One local said the injured boy was obviously in pain as he was pulled from the aircraft.
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"He was blowing on that whistle really hard," he said.
The helicopter had landed around 9.30 am that morning, and eventually took off again just before 11.30am.
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