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Cook: The most important airline you’ve never heard of

Dent M. Thompson, Vice President and COO of Phoenix Air Group, Inc., speaks about his company's involvement in safely transporting Ebola patients into the United States using one of three Phoenix Air Group, Inc.'s Gulfstream III aircraft.
Dent M. Thompson, Vice President and COO of Phoenix Air Group, Inc., speaks about his company's involvement in safely transporting Ebola patients into the United States using one of three Phoenix Air Group, Inc.'s Gulfstream III aircraft.

By David Cook 5 min read

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photo David Cook

Last week, I wrote about Clay Wardlaw, the Chattanooga man who decontaminates the planes that evacuate Ebola patients from Africa back to America and Europe.

Now, meet Dent Thompson.

He owns the Ebola planes that fly the unfriendly skies.

“We go into the really bad places,” he said.