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ByKristinJ.Bender TheAssociatedPress SAN FRANCISCO Zully Broussard thought she was going to help one person by donating a kidney. Instead, she helped six. The Sacramento woman's donation to a Benicia man set off an organ swap that resulted in five more sick people getting new kidneys at a San Francisco hospi- tal. Three transplants were planned for Thursday, and the remaining three Friday. "I thought I was going to help this one person who I don't know, but the fact that so many people can have a life extension, that's pretty big," Broussard said. Domino-like kidney swaps are still relatively new but are becoming in- creasingly common. With a total of a dozen patients and donors, this week's surgeries at the Cal- ifornia Pacific Medical Cen- ter represent the largest kidney donation chain in its transplant center's 44-year history, hospital spokes- man Dean Fryer said. The patients at are between 24 to 70 years old, and most are from the San Francisco Bay Area. Transplant chains are an option when donors are in- compatible with relatives or friends who need kidneys. In this case, six donors are instead giving kidneys to strangers found through a software matching pro- gram developed by 59-year- old David Jacobs, a kidney recipient whose brother died of kidney failure. Its algorithmic program finds potential matches using a person's genetic profile. Jacobs, of San Francisco, said he understands first- hand the despair of waiting for a deceased donor. "Some of these people might have waited forever and never got the kidney," he said. "But because of the magic of this technol- ogy and the one altruistic donor, she was able to save six lives in 24 hours." Fewer than 17,000 kidney transplants are performed in the U.S. each year, and between 5,000 and 6,000 are from living donors, con- sidered the optimal kind. Kidney swaps are consid- ered one of the best bets at increasing live-donor trans- plants, and they are becom- ing more common as trans- plant centers form alliances to share willing patient-do- nor pairs. The United Net- work for Organ Sharing has a national pilot program underway. In 2001, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Mary- land, performed a transplant chain that started as a two- way kidney exchange and grew to 30 pairs. Jacobs' kidneys failed in early 2000 from a genetic disease. In late 2003, a liv- ing unrelated donor pro- vided an organ for a trans- plant. A new chance at life got him thinking. "I talked to my doctor about kidney-paired dona- tion. He was excited about the idea but didn't know how to do it," he recalled. "I was a tech person. I've been in technology my whole professional career. I thought of it as an enter- prise software problem I could solve." He said the two months he imagined it would take to take to develop the soft- ware stretched into six years. The National Kidney Foundation reports more than 100,000 people in the United States are awaiting kidneys, and 12 people die a day while waiting. HEALTH Ch ai n of k id ne y tr an sp la nt s be gi ns a t Sa n Fr an ci sc o ho sp it al LEAHMILLI—SANFRANCISCO CHRONICLE Kidney donor Zully Broussard, le , hugs her longtime friend Pam Nelson a er a media conference at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Harrison Ford crash-landed his vin- tage airplane at a Los An- geles golf course Thursday, an official said. He suffered moderate injuries and was taken to a hospital. The actor's single-engine plane went down at about 2:30 p.m. in LA's Venice area, authorities said. The pilot was breathing and conscious when he was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in fair to mod- erate condition, Los Ange- les fire officials said. Fire officials would not confirm the pilot's identity. However, an official famil- iar with the crash said it was Ford. The official spoke only condition of anonym- ity because of privacy re- strictions. The 72-year-old "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" actor is an aviation enthusi- ast who often flies out of the Santa Monica Airport. Pen- mar Golf Course, where the crash happened, is just west of a runway there. The plane appeared to be a World War II-era vin- tage training plane. It was mostly intact after the wreck, and Ford was the only person aboard. Nobody on the ground was hurt, but people rushed the scene and started help- ing Ford. Jeff Kuprycz was golfing when he saw the plane tak- ing off. "Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," he said. "He ended up crashing around the eighth hole." Kuprycz said the plane was about 200 feet over- head when it plunged to the ground. "There was no explosion or anything. It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it," Kuprycz said. Ford is cast to play swash- buckling space-age soldier- of-fortune Han Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie, set for release in December. The original "Star Wars" in 1977 made Ford an over- night star who remains an A-list actor with several co- lossal box office hits in his credits. He played whip- slinging archaeologist In- diana Jones in four movies in that series. Ford was hospitalized in 2012 after injuring his an- kle in an accident on the London set of "Star Wars: Episode VII." He's been married since 2010 to "Ally McBeal" ac- tress Calista Flockhart. Ford got his pilot's license in the late 1980s and has served as a spokesman to various airline associations. In 2009, he stepped down as chairman of a youth pro- gram for the Experimental Aircraft Association. His flying made head- lines in 2001 when he res- cued a missing Boy Scout on his helicopter. 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