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Former Orange County resident rescued first Americans from Wuhan

CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT 3 hrs ago

CULPEPER — He struggled at Orange County High School as a Taiwanese immigrant learning to speak English.

With poor grades, he enrolled at Germanna Community College, planning to become an auto-body mechanic. He credits the college with changing his life’s flight path.

Dr. Juk Ting — the physician-pilot who in January led the first evacuation flight of Americans out of Wuhan, China — arrived in Orange County, Virginia, in 1983 as an overwhelmed 14-year-old.

Ting, who now lives in Orange County, California, works both as a doctor in the emergency room of the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles and as an international pilot flying jumbo jets for Kalitta Air.

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