Aircraft
Samaritan's Purse DC-8 Providing Rapid Haiti Relief
Charity's DC-8 brings needed relief to Haiti after Saturday's earthquake.

Less than 36 hours after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti on Saturday, a Samaritan’s Purse DC-8-72CF landed in Port au Prince carrying 31 tons of relief supplies and members of the $750 million private charity’s Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART). The cargo included emergency shelter material, medical supplies, and filtration units to provide clean water daily for thousands of people. On Sunday night, as the death toll from the earthquake approached 1,500, Samaritan’s Purse was preparing a second airlift to transport an emergency field hospital, surgical teams, and other doctors and nurses into Haiti.