CAN Celebrates 35-Year History
Safe Flight hosted the first flight, carrying a 22-year-old bone cancer patient home on December 22, 1981.
CAN's first flight transported Michael Burnett, a 22-year-old bone cancer patient (left), from New York to Detroit on a Safe Flight King Air 200, with Leonard Greene. (Photo: CAN)
CAN's first flight transported Michael Burnett, a 22-year-old bone cancer patient (left), from New York to Detroit on a Safe Flight King Air 200, with Leonard Greene. (Photo: CAN)

The Corporate Angel Network (CAN) is recognizing the 35th anniversary of its first patient flight today. On Dec. 22, 1981, Safe Flight Instrument Corp. hosted that first flight, carrying a 22-year-old bone cancer patient home from treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The patient, Michael Burnett, who had been discharged in time for the holidays, traveled on board the Safe Flight King Air 200 from White Plains, New York, to Detroit. There, friends and family met him on the tarmac with holiday music in the background.


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