emergency airlift
Urgent aerial rescue
An emergency airlift is the rapid transport of people or supplies by aircraft during a crisis.
The term typically applies to evacuations from disaster zones, war areas, or medical emergencies, or to delivering urgent humanitarian aid: The earthquake triggered an emergency airlift of survivors, an emergency airlift of food and medicine to the besieged city.
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- air ambulanceEmergency medical aircraft
- rescueSave from harm
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- medical transportambulance, hearse, medevac, air ambulance, patient transport
- helicoptershelicopters, helicopter ride, chopper, rotorcraft, copter
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