"We will keep trying. We were burned pretty badly
tonight. We got rolling at the specific and frantic, yes, frantic,
request of the authorities only to see it turn into a disappointing
and frustrating exercise in futility. Lesson Number One: We will
try to airlift folks going forward but will only call on our pilots
when the people to be evacuated are at the airport, lined up, ready
to go."
Source: Angel Flight SC, after putting together
a massive relocation/rescue mission to Baton Rouge and being turned
back by a confused bureaucracy as the aircraft were airborne and
enroute to that embattled location. Undaunted, Angel Flight went
back and completed that mission later in the week.
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