Coast Guard Airlifts Injured Man From Ship Off Oahu

HONOLULU — A Coast Guard rescue team airlifted an injured man from a cargo vessel about 12 miles south of Oahu on Wednesday morning.

The crew from Barbers Point took a 28-year-old man from the Norwegian-flagged motor vessel Taronga.

The injured man suffered a broken knee. The team flew him to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point. An ambulance crew treated the man and took him to Queen’s Medical Center.

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