Sentence examples for relief flight from inspiring English sources

It was the first American relief flight to the region, where thousands are feared dead and tens of thousands more homeless as a result of Friday's typhoon.

Dodson said they had set up a crisis center, flown in additional airline representatives to help passengers and arranged for a relief flight to take passengers to their final destinations.

Months later, after two attempts by Serbian snipers to kill her, and with a mounting toll of unexplained killings among Serbs remaining in the city, the surgeon fled aboard a United Nations relief flight.

James Brooke (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAQ: TURKEY FLIES IN RELIEF -- Turkey became the ninth country to send a token relief flight to Baghdad, the latest in what has become an almost daily show of support for Iraq.

Because of uncertainties of who was in charge and when a relief flight might be launched, Mr. Krikalev was asked to stay aboard to keep Mir running while giving up his scheduled return seat to another astronaut.

In testimony that first emerged on Monday, Hicks claims that four special forces soldiers with him in Tripoli were "furious" when they were told by superiors in Washington that they could not join a relief flight to Benghazi organised by the Libyan government in the hours after the initial attack.

With shelters overloaded, officials redirected relief flights.

Delivery by the Navy was considered impractical, leaving relief flights as the best option.

Sudanese Air Force planes have attacked hospitals, schools and airstrips where relief flights land.

Qantas was also planning two special relief flights to supplement additional services by its Jetstar subsidiary.

The carrier, which has 19 helicopters on board, will serve as a staging platform for relief flights to Haiti.