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To Wuhan and back: Pilot’s flight to the centre of the pandemic – Traveller
When Mark Rammell flew NZ’s only flight into the pandemic’s epicentre, he had no idea that same virus would end his four-decade career.
Former airline pilot Mark Rammell was one of the flight crew in the Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200 that undertook the evacuation flight to Wuhan. Photo: Stuff
When Mark Rammell flew the only New Zealand flight into the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, he had no idea that same virus would end his four-decade career as an airline pilot.
In February, he joined the flight crew of an Air New Zealand Boeing 777 in Hong Kong bound for Wuhan. They were tasked with bringing Kiwis home on the only evacuation…
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