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SFBAA Charity Golf Outing Provides Immediate Assistance
Annual event assisted a young cancer patient in need of transcontinental transport.
Young cancer patient given flight to treatment
An 11-year-old cancer patient was given a transcontinental flight on a Dassault Falcon to receive special medical treatment along with her family, and her "emotional support" bunny, after the business jet's owner volunteered it and its crew at the South Florida Business Aviation Association Charity Golf Classic last week.

The South Florida Business Aviation Association (SFBAA) held its annual Charity Golf Classic on November 13, and one of the unplanned, immediate beneficiaries was an 11-year-old cancer patient. Just after arriving at the PGA National Golf Course a day before the event, Mark Pestal, executive director of business aviation charity AeroAngel, received a flight request from a Daytona family whose 11-year-old daughter with pancreatic cancer needed to fly to Los Angeles in a few days to start treatment.

AeroAngel provides free, private jet flights to help seriously ill children travel to and from lifesaving medical care across the country, and just a day before the golf charity event the FDA had approved a single-patient clinical trial for the young girl. But she was immunocompromised, which ruled out airline flights as a transport option.

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