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Robert Kraft Provides Team Plane For Parkland Florida Students And Families

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March 23, 2018 at 2:09 pm ET

Robert Kraft Provides Team Plane For Parkland Florida Students And Families(PHOTO: Robert Deutsch - USA TODAY Sports)

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On Friday, New England Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft lent one of the teams “Air Kraft” airplanes to students and families of the victims lost in the the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla on Februay 14th.

The plane was dispatched to Florida to pickup a group that plans on attending Saturday’s ‘‘March For Our Lives’’ rally in Washington, D.C. and return them home after.

According to an AP report, “Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, operate an anti-gun violence organization, and reached out to Kraft for assistance.”

A few students documented the trip on social media.

https://twitter.com/kali4change/status/977023722157723649

https://twitter.com/SawyerRayne/status/976939326356541441

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