Disaster Relief

Sacks of food grain are delivered to a remote Tanzanian village during a severe drought and resulting famine which affected much of east Africa. 060306/987W0646.JPG

In times of flood, famine, earthquake and other natural disasters we fly in relief for refugees and internally displaced people, and undertake evacuation operations too.

Following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, regular relief flights carrying food were a lifeline to decimated villages along the north eastern coastline of Sumatra’s Aceh province.
In Bangladesh, our plane was the first civilian aircraft to start helping in the aftermath of the devastation caused by cyclone Sidr in November 2007.
In Mongolia droughts, and unusually cold and snowy winters have in the past decimated livestock, destroying the livelihoods of thousands of families. MAF flights offer a lifeline in a medical emergency and bring hope to those eking out a bare existence.

MAF pilot David Pearce and World Relief workers unloading World Relief supplies from the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan at Akobo, southern Sudan. 200706 / 1677-10-072 ed.tif

The Cessna 206 landed on a stretch of road to bring boxes of essential relief supplies to the village of Alue Titi following the Boxing Day tsunami.