Navy Hero of Yom Kippur War is Flown Transatlantic

Mission Impossible? Decade Later, Navy Hero of Yom Kippur War is Flown Transatlantic on Heart Balloon Pump

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Decades after being crowned a navy hero of the Yom Kippur War, Vardi Brachia, 51, was in critical, unstable condition, kept barely alive by a network of life-sustaining machinery. His only hope for survival was a heart transplant in America, but no one in the world would undertake the dangerous mission of transporting a patient like that over the ocean. It meant flying the hospital along with him. Impossible.