1. Sarajevo Airport closed by fighting Violence in Sarajevo hit the airport leading to the suspension of relief flights temporarily. 2. Air Force helicopters had been involved in relief flights for Kurds in northern Iraq, and medical units were operating with UN forces in Cambodia. 3. Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards was flown home on one of the Hercules transport planes which have been making regular relief flights into Sarajevo. 4. Squadron Leader Christopher Tingay, from R-A-F Lyneham, has been awarded the Air Force Cross for piloting the first relief flights into Sarajevo. 5. In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights... from a base in Zagreb... to the devastated Saravejo. 6. Violence in Sarajevo hit the airport leading to the suspension of relief flights temporarily. 7. Nine relief flights were scheduled to arrive yesterday and two overland convoys were en route to the besieged towns of Gorazde and Tuzla. 8. And its arrival was the high point of the first private American relief flight since the start of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. 9. -- Fired at relief planes as they land at Sarajevo Airport, forcing repeated suspensions of relief flights. 10. A second French proposal is to make the Sarajevo airport more secure so relief flights of food and medicine can be resumed. |
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