S.O.S AIR flies to Turkey for liver transplant after UK doctors deemed him too ill. The family were forced to fly their dad 1,700 miles to Turkey for a liver transplant after UK doctors said he was too unwell to have the surgery. A son has told how he flew his father 1,700 miles to Turkey to donate part of his own liver after UK doctors ruled him too ill for surgery. So on August 11 Zahid discharged himself and was taken by private ambulance to Manchester Airport, where S.O.S AIR with a doctor and nurse on board was waiting to fly him to Turkey. He said: "“I’m grateful for my family refusing to give up on me. I’d have been a dead man if I stayed any longer. They were brave to resist.”