"The clock was ticking. We'd taken the cells out of
their culture media an hour before. We thought about driving to
Barcelona, but that would have taken too long... We had a couple of
conversations, and within two hours the surgeon was in Bristol --
with his private jet."
Source: Professor Martin Birchall, lead
researcher among a team of British, German, and Spanish doctors who
partnered on the effort that resulted in the first-ever transplant
of a donor trachea, or windpipe, into a patient without the need
for immunosuppresants. The novel novel medical procedure almost
didn't happen this summer, however, thanks to a certain British
low-cost airline... and it was general aviation that literally flew
to the rescue.
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