Monday, January 25, 2010
first missions
Today we flew our first mission. We met our passengers, Three surgeons headed for Cap Hatien at the fort Lauderdale airport at 6:30am. These doctors work for a organization called clean the world. I don't really know what that means and Zack was afraid to ask. Our flight was about 2 hours taking us over most of the Bahamas island chain. Once we arrived and dropped off the docs,we where greeted by some friendly airport officials who informed me that our 4 passengers were waiting to return to Florida. This was news to me,but after thinking it over we decided that it was a worthy mission and began the departure procedures. The scene at the airport was quite normal, but we did not leave the complex so we did not really experience Haiti. On our return we stopped in Turks and Caicos to grab some fuel. The scene there was very energetic, with volunteers running around trying to organize supplies and flights.Once safely back in the US we meet with our coordinator, who assigned us another early morning mission with 4 more docs right back to Cap hatien. Tomorrow night we hope to stay over in the DR, and start moving supplies ,but we will do what ever provides the most help. have a great night Randy
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Really happy to read the positive post. I jumped to the wrong conclusion, since I could find no flight plan from Cap-Hatien to Provo, and figured they would not let you land in Haiti. Keep up your wonderful work. Loren
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