recovery missions
Salvage and rescue
Recovery missions are organized efforts to retrieve something—a crashed aircraft, a sunken vessel, lost equipment, or human remains.
The term spans military operations, space programs, and disaster response: Recovery missions located the black box two weeks after the crash.
The word recovery emphasizes bringing back what was lost rather than rescue of survivors, though the two sometimes overlap.
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- retrievalAct of getting back
- searchAct of seeking
extraction · survivors · bring them home · debris · crash site · wreckage · flight recorder · divers · helicopters · emergency · locate · missing · stranded · rubble · ground zero · disaster · airlift · coastguard
recovery missionsabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
desertion · forsaking · leaving behind · neglect · giving up
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