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GA pilot volunteers to fly heart patient home for Christmas

By General Aviation News Staff · December 28, 2015 ·

After undergoing a heart transplant less than two weeks before Christmas, a Maine man got the ultimate gift this Christmas — a free flight home. The 54-year-old has traveled from Rockland, Maine, to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and back 53 separate times, all courtesy of Patient Airlift Services (PALS), according to a report from the CBS affiliate in Boston. “I don’t think there’s words in the dictionary — I get teared up just thinking about it,” Gene Kelly said. “When I can come up with the right words they’ll know it. They’re an extraordinary group of people.”

 

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