mercy flight

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Times

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.

From New York Times

June 21, 2010, 6:07 pm I See England, I See France The amateur pantomime that is England’s 2010 World Cup campaign took another theatrical turn on Monday, perhaps more entertaining in its way than the mercy flight of WAGs winging its way to South Africa in defiance of Coach Fabio Capello’s ban on wives and girlfriends.

From New York Times

In the last days of the Viet Nam War, Daly organized, paid for and flew on a World mercy flight into Danang hours before the North Vietnamese captured the city.

From Time Magazine Archive