News / ‘Accidental activation’ of life jacket on land leads to coastguard search effort
A POSSIBLE “accidental activation” of a life jacket near Sumburgh Airport led to a full search and rescue effort on Wednesday morning.
The coastguard sent the Sumburgh-based helicopter and its search and rescue boat to the area after a man overboard beacon was triggered on a life jacket.
The Aith lifeboat was also called to the scene.
But the coastguard said it had discovered that the alert was triggered by a life jacket on land instead, and that there was “nobody at risk in the water”.
All crews were stood down at 12.22pm.
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