Wed, Jan 05, 2005
Helicopter Comes Under Bow-And-Arrow Attack, Landing 737 Hits
Water Buffalo
Wanted: Cargo planes to carry relief supplies to tsunami victims
in South Asia. That word comes from the UN, as the effort to
provide food, water and medicine to millions of people in 11
countries kicked into high gear this week.
"We absolutely need more C-17 aircraft - three or four - for one
month ... The only governments who have those are the UK and the
US," said Isabelle de Muyser-Boucher, in charge of logistics at the
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). She
was quoted by London Daily Telegraph reporters in Geneva.
But that relief effort was somewhat hampered Tuesday when a 737
skidded off the runway at Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, after it
apparently hit a water buffalo on the strip. The runway was blocked
for much of the day before the aircraft could be moved. Witnesses
said it suffered substantial damage to its landing gear.
While aid workers and aircraft bringing supplies were generally
well-received throughout the devastated region, an Indian
helicopter on a mission to drop food and water over Andaman and
Nicobar Islands was attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows.
Authorities say the Indian Coast Guard helicopter, flying over
Sentinel Island, wasn't damaged. No one was hurt.
Police in the area said they took the bow-and-arrow attack as a
sign that not all the indigenous tribes in the area had been wiped
out by the killer waves.
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