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China’s air force deploys ‘flying hospital’ for the first time in Tibet

In a video released on July 17, 2020, by the People's Liberation Army, China showed its air force deploying a Y-9 aircraft for the first time to transfer a critically injured officer from a base in Tibet to a hospital in Xian. 

Video source: PLA Air Force/CCTV
 

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