Sentence examples for rescue flight from inspiring English sources

The empty rescue flight bound for Crete had to return due to a technical fault with the air conditioning.

Eielson returned to Alaska to found another commercial aviation company, but he died shortly thereafter while attempting a rescue flight off the coast of Siberia.

Dave Gordon, a trekker from San Francisco, in the US, said he was in the area until Tuesday waiting for the rescue flight.

3.31pm: "Thomas Cook has confirmed that one of a rescue flight to Crete had to return to Manchester airport today after a technical fault.

NASA managers and supporters in Congress are lobbying the Obama administration to launch Atlantis on a final space station resupply mission next summer if a rescue flight is not needed.

The plane, operated by a Toronto-based company that specializes in flying in conflict zones, was the first Canadian rescue flight to reach Libya after several false starts this week.

"When the rescue flights started, it touched a raw nerve".

The last rescue flights are operating on Tuesday 17 November.

The nearest airport was damaged in the quake but rescue flights started to arrive by afternoon.

While rescue flights are taking UK nationals home, flights to the Egyptian resort to Egypt remain suspended.

The airport was closed for a week; rescue flights had to operate from a nearby military base.