U.S., Feb. 17 -- Welcome to Kalitta Air flight from Tokyo Haneda to Kelly Field , an air force base located in San Antonio, Texas, or Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. This must have been the most bizarre and spooky freight the airline transported.

328 Americans were to be whisked away from the contaminated D iamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo told passengers that no one infected with the new coronavirus would be allowed to board charter flights to the United States.

But those plans were hastily changed after the test results for 14 passengers came back positive - just as they were being loaded onto buses and dispatched to the airport, where two reconfigured cargo jets were waiting to fly t...