mercy flight

noun

1. an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community

Example Sentences

The Mercy Flight helicopter was on its second training run of the day when it went down in a field in the western New York town of Elba in April 2022.

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Buffalo-based Mercy Flight transports patients to area hospitals in a Bell 429 helicopter, according to the not-for-profit company’s website.

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The mercy flight to Jordan, the first from northern Yemen in three years, also offered a glimmer of hope for faltering diplomatic efforts to broker an end to a grinding five-year war that pushed much of the country to the brink of starvation.

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Officials didn’t name the victim, who was taken by Mercy Flight to a hospital in Syracuse.

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The mercy flight produced a sigh of relief of sorts among Pakistanis who have kept an anxious national vigil for Ms. Yousafzai since she was shot by a militant gunman as she returned from school in Mingora, the main town in the northwestern Swat Valley, last Tuesday.

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