Stored Airliners Proposed As Temporary Hospitals Amid Pandemic

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Credit: Joe Pries
LONDON—A UK-based group is proposing using stored widebody airliners as intensive care units as countries grapple to find hospital capacity to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. With dozens of widebody aircraft now idle at airports around the world awaiting a return to regular airline operation...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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