mercy flight

British

noun

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

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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.

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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.

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