Tuesday, February 14, 2012


Albanian helicopter; difficult missions



Difficult air missions
In a sunny day, after an entire grey area, the helicopters were finally ready to start the flying for sending food supply to isolated areas.

The Farka Regiment pilots had prepared their helicopters early in the morning, but they had to wait the trucks with food from the state reserves for more than three hours.

One of the destinations the stadium at Puka, an area that has urgent need of food supply.

After flying over dozens of isolated villages, the helicopter arrived in Puka, but no one was waiting in unloading spot. The pilots unloaded the packs, while the helicopter had to hover for not getting stuck in the snow.

But even after they unloaded the food, the pilots were obliged to take them back. After hovering for five minutes, they were ordered to return to the stadium, and again, it was the pilots who unloaded the packages.

The same thing had happened to another crew, which waited for more than 20 minutes in the air for someone to take the packages. The main pilot went himself to warn the local authorities that the food had arrived.

The pilots flew off the stadium by leaving the food supply in the white field, with the hope that the local authorities would take them before the snow would cover them up.

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