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β€˜It was a great team effort’

Flight Lieutenant Timothy Eddy will today receive the Air Force Cross for great courage in the air.

In December 2013, he landed a C-17 on a runway in South Sudan that was blocked by a crashed jumbo jet and airlifted 182 people stranded by the civil war.

β€œWe’d been tasked to rescue these persons from the civil war in South Sudan and move them to safety of neighbouring Uganda, so that’s exactly what we wanted to do.”

β€œIt was a great team effort,” he said.

β€œWe’re just hugely relieved that it all went according to plan.”

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