Haiti - Some facts and figures

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Haiti - Some facts and figures
3 Million people to provide support to - 3 million
Plus hundreds of thousand injured - What people want is a miracle and it ain;t going to happen.

The airport has 1 runway 9600 ft long
With only a 9,600 foot runway (2,926 meters), the Port-au-Prince airport has been choked with aid flights since the January 12 earthquake that caused massive death and destruction throughout much of the Haitian capital.

Some aircraft were coming in to Haiti without the proper clearances and were then diverted to other airports, according to the official.But he said about 130 flights a day were now flowing into the airport, up from an initial 30 to 40 flights a day.

Please note what Arab Oil Rich Countries have donated and people still blame the US -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/14/haiti-quake-aid-pledges-country-donations#data

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/haiti.pdf
 
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Johnny said:
you figured they could have donated some barrels of oil at least
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Haiti was a mess for infrastructure and gangs running rampant before the quake - 3 million to feed, provide medical care and people fault the US - the flight numbers as I now understand are up to 180 per day -

The UN spent years trying to control and gain the upper hand on the gangs - The prison emptied after the quake -

Many aid groups will not be allowed to go without escorts for their safety - Imagine if they had no soldiers for protection and were massacred - Again the US would be at fault -
People just hate the US regardless of what they do.
 
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Goober said:
Haiti was a mess for infrastructure and gangs running rampant before the quake - 3 million to feed, provide medical care and people fault the US - the flight numbers as I now understand are up to 180 per day -

The UN spent years trying to control and gain the upper hand on the gangs - The prison emptied after the quake -

Many aid groups will not be allowed to go without escorts for their safety - Imagine if they had no soldiers for protection and were massacred - Again the US would be at fault -
People just hate the US regardless of what they do.
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Get the facts right Goober, do you have an agenda to grind or what?

A second airfield is seen as the key to relieving congestion at Toussaint Louverture International [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Airport[/COLOR][/COLOR] in Port-au-Prince, which handled an average of 13 commercial flights per day before the Jan. 12 earthquake, but now is seeing more than 200 flights per day as desperately needed relief flights jam its single runway.
U.S. seeks to open 2nd Haiti airfield - UPI.com
 
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Johnnny said:
I hear you loud and clear Goober :)
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I am tired of seeing people think that you can move millions of pounds of aid out of an airport that has one runway - I am tired of people looking for any reason to blame the US -

I wonder how much these self serving Peoples have donated to any charities -
 
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MHz said:
Get the facts right Goober, do you have an agenda to grind or what?

A second airfield is seen as the key to relieving congestion at Toussaint Louverture International [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Airport[/COLOR][/COLOR] in Port-au-Prince, which handled an average of 13 commercial flights per day before the Jan. 12 earthquake, but now is seeing more than 200 flights per day as desperately needed relief flights jam its single runway.
U.S. seeks to open 2nd Haiti airfield - UPI.com
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In which facts do you find the burr under your saddle?
 
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MHz said:
Get the facts right Goober, do you have an agenda to grind or what?

A second airfield is seen as the key to relieving congestion at Toussaint Louverture International [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Airport[/color][/color] in Port-au-Prince, which handled an average of 13 commercial flights per day before the Jan. 12 earthquake, but now is seeing more than 200 flights per day as desperately needed relief flights jam its single runway.
U.S. seeks to open 2nd Haiti airfield - UPI.com
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Yes I am aware of that - i had my facts correct - i was referring to one airport -
 
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In which facts do you find the burr under your saddle?
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In my post, none, 200 flights is good news. I'm sure Goober was expecting some sort of condemnation. I saw a vis not long ago that shared more detail on who is in charge of what, the workload is shared by the UN, the US military and civilian aid agencies are tagged up with some Haitians to determine the aid deliveries and collection of the bodies etc. I don't find anything to object to in that report. Want to find the link again?
Perhaps those machete yielding gangs will be the next police.
 
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MHz said:
Get the facts right Goober, do you have an agenda to grind or what?

A second airfield is seen as the key to relieving congestion at Toussaint Louverture International [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Airport[/color][/color] in Port-au-Prince, which handled an average of 13 commercial flights per day before the Jan. 12 earthquake, but now is seeing more than 200 flights per day as desperately needed relief flights jam its single runway.
U.S. seeks to open 2nd Haiti airfield - UPI.com
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MHZFor you.

http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/centralamerica/haiti.htm
 
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MHz said:
In my post, none, 200 flights is good news. I'm sure Goober was expecting some sort of condemnation. I saw a vis not long ago that shared more detail on who is in charge of what, the workload is shared by the UN, the US military and civilian aid agencies are tagged up with some Haitians to determine the aid deliveries and collection of the bodies etc. I don't find anything to object to in that report. Want to find the link again?
Perhaps those machete yielding gangs will be the next police.
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In one news article it says 150. In another, 180, Do you know how to round up - as in blowing sunshine up the butt? You're talking about an airport opened in 1965 - in a time when airplanes still had propellers.

If those machete-wielding gangs want to go up against M16s and C7s ... go ahead. Saves interning them....
 
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MHz said:
Get the facts right Goober, do you have an agenda to grind or what?

A second airfield is seen as the key to relieving congestion at Toussaint Louverture International [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Airport[/color][/color] in Port-au-Prince, which handled an average of 13 commercial flights per day before the Jan. 12 earthquake, but now is seeing more than 200 flights per day as desperately needed relief flights jam its single runway.
U.S. seeks to open 2nd Haiti airfield - UPI.com
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Check the lenght of the paved and unpaved runways - figure out how usefull they would be - type of aircraft that could land - and and yes take off as well.
 
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lone wolf said:
In one news article it says 150. In another, 180, Do you know how to round up - as in blowing sunshine up the butt? You're talking about an airport opened in 1965 - in a time when airplanes still had propellers.
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Just going by the news - not the best of sources - i realize that.
 
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lone wolf said:
In one news article it says 150. In another, 180, Do you know how to round up - as in blowing sunshine up the butt? You're talking about an airport opened in 1965 - in a time when airplanes still had propellers.

If those machete-wielding gangs want to go up against M16s and C7s ... go ahead. Saves interning them....
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Why not give them a book of rules and hire them, they at least speak the language.
 
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