Haiti: "Don't forget about us"
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 09:05AM The transport situation in Haiti is so chaotic that the U.S. has been forced to parachute in aid to desperate earthquake survivors, it has emerged.
The U.S. military resorted to an air drop from C-17 transport planes yesterday, parachuting pallets of supplies to a secured area outside Port-au-Prince rather than landing and unloading at the overwhelmed airport.
A military spokeswoman said the plane, flying out of Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, dropped 14,500 ready meals and 15,000 litres of water into a secured area five miles north-east of the Haitian capital.
Earlier, military officials had decided such a move was too risky. Now the U.S. is considering whether to start air-drops throughout the country.
Scott Drake talks with Philip Zodhiates of AMG...a humanitarian relief organization with a presence in Haiti.
