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In among the current Hantavirus outbreak was one patient who'd got off on Tristan da Cunha, because he lives there. When his case turned critical, the island, which is a week by ship from anywhere, with no airfield, started running out of oxygen, so a call for help went out to Whitehall. Enter the RAF and the Pathfinder Platoon of the Parachute Regiment - 56 hours and 7000 miles later, an A400M drops six pathfinders, two of them tandem jumping with a doctor and nurse, onto the island's golf course.

https://www.forcesnews.com/services/raf/saving-life-how-raf-and-army-carried-out-medical-para-drop-remote-settlement