AIR FORCE FLIGHTS FROM NIAGARA FALLS GOING TO HAITI

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Continued support from Western New York

 In a late night mission, Airmen of the New York Air National Guard's 107 th Airlift wing delivered 18,270 bottles of water to Haiti on Monday, Feb. 8.

The 107th Airmen were settling in for the night shen the call came in, and within minutes all crew members were on the shuttle bus headed for the flight line.

The mission, moving 19,000 pounds of water , would take them from their staging area at MacDill, Air Force Base, Fla., to Homestead Air Reserve Station, Fla., to receive their load of cargo and then into Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The C-130 crew reconfigured the airframe from their previous mission, evacuating injured Haitians, back into a cargo hauler.

Working together loadmasters, crew chiefs and flight engineers removed litter supports, seats and installed cargo rollers. Within a couple hours the crew had converted the cargo area, checked gauges, mechanics and deemed the craft ready for flight.

Upon arrival at Homestead, aerial port members on site transported and loaded the water, already on pallets, bound and secured for the 3 hour flight onto Niagara's aircraft