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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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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

AID and embassy officials for authority to fly hundreds of additional orphans out of Viet Nam and wired Secretary of State Kissinger demanding permission to send a 747 mercy flight into beleaguered Danang.

From Time Magazine Archive

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