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C-130s Land in Honduras En Route to Haiti

C-130s Land in Honduras En Route to Haiti

Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:53

At least some of the humanitarian assistance that the United States government has been delivering to Haiti since January 12 when the island nation was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake is being transported by air via Honduras. US Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft have taken off from military bases in the continental US and made stop-overs at Soto Cano Air Base near Comayagua in central Honduras. On January 17, three C-130Hs departed from Youngstown Air Reserve Station in northeast Ohio between 1:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. One of the aircraft landed in the evening at Soto Cano where it took on 19 US military medical personnel, a Humvee vehicle with a trailer loaded with supplies and a pallet of additional aid materials, including blood for transfusions and bottled water. The aircraft flew from Soto Cano at 10:40 that same evening and landed in Port au Prince at 2:45 the next morning. (photo courtesy Internet)