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βIt was a great team effortβ
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.
βWeβd been tasked to rescue these persons from the civil war in South Sudan and move them to safety of neighbouring Uganda, so thatβs exactly what we wanted to do.β
βIt was a great team effort,β he said.
βWeβre just hugely relieved that it all went according to plan.β
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