Charleston AFB aircrew conducts air delivery over Haiti
January 21st, 2010
At approximately 5 a.m. the day of the flight, Maj. Jeff Daniels, the mission aircraft commander with the 437th Operations Support Squadron, said he received word of the air delivery. Three hours later, he and his crew were off and on their way to Pope AFB, N.C, for a mission brief and to pickup supplies for delivery.
The initial air delivery mission was conducted as an experiment, Major Daniels said. The method has been proven effective in the past when proper ground coordination is available secure delivered supplies and to distribute them and the experiment would help decide if the earthquake ravaged environment was stable enough to support those conditions.
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