A hiker from Connecticut with a badly broken leg crawled three-tenths

THOMPSON & MESERVES PURCHASE — A hiker from Connecticut with a badly broken leg crawled three-tenths of a mile to an area in the White Mountains where a Blackhawk helicopter could land and rescue him on Sunday afternoon. Andrew Davis, 27, of W. Hartford, Conn., was airlifted by rescuers in a National Guard Blackhawk helicopter, according to a report released by Lieutenant Mark W. Ober, Jr. of the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department.  “The injury was a result of an accident not negligence,” Lt. Ober’s report states. The lieutenant credits the National Guard for assissting with a rescue that would have been much more challenging and dangerous if Davis needed to be carried to safety by rescuers on foot. Ober was taken Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin, N.H.