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Niki Lauda's lung transplant not related to his 1976 crash
Niki Lauda is recovering well in an Austrian hospital following his lung transplant according to one of the doctors that operated on him. The 69-year-old was flown by private jet from Ibiza to Austria's AKH Vienna hospital after falling ill whilst on holiday and immediately underwent a lung transplant. Dr Walter Klepetko, head of thoracic surgery at AKH, confirmed that Lauda's operation went according to plan and revealed that the need for a new lung wasn't related to his fiery crash at the Nurburgring in 1976 when he came close to losing his life. 'Everything is currently going very well and we are very satisfied [with his recovery so far],' Dr Klepetko told...
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