Carrying our country's aid supplies, this plane took off from Pudong and arrived in the hurricane stricken area of Libya through 17 countries

Recently, a full cargo plane from China Eastern Airlines carried out a chartered flight CK5001 for emergency humanitarian supplies to Libya. It took nearly 16 hours, passing through 2 landing countries and flying through 17 countries, transporting over 90 tons of humanitarian aid supplies, including tents, emergency kits, water purification equipment, and monitors, to the eastern city of Benghazi in Libya

Recently, a full cargo plane from China Eastern Airlines carried out a chartered flight CK5001 for emergency humanitarian supplies to Libya. It took nearly 16 hours, passing through 2 landing countries and flying through 17 countries, transporting over 90 tons of humanitarian aid supplies, including tents, emergency kits, water purification equipment, and monitors, to the eastern city of Benghazi in Libya.

The chartered plane then completed the unloading and smooth return at Benghazi Airport. After stopping in Amsterdam, it continued to operate the later flight, and finally efficiently and meticulously completed the round-trip rescue flight of "Shanghai Pudong Amsterdam Benghazi Amsterdam Shanghai Pudong".

In September this year, the Mediterranean hurricane "Daniel" appeared at the end of summer with extremely high intensity and rarely, bringing gales and heavy rainfall disasters to many countries in the eastern Mediterranean, especially in Libya, which caused an almost unprecedented rainstorm, leading to the sudden flooding of the usually dry local Derna River. The unprecedented flood peak first led to dam break in the upstream of the river, further intensifying the ferocious floods and mud rock flows, Subsequently, it dealt a heavy blow to the eastern part of Libya, especially the coastal city of Derna, which has a history of 2000 and a population of nearly 100000, causing extremely huge casualties and property damage.

In the face of the disaster, the Chinese government has decided to provide emergency humanitarian assistance of 30 million yuan to Libya to help carry out post disaster relief work. China Eastern Airlines has been ordered to charter flights to transport China's aid to Libya.

To ensure the successful completion of this charter flight, China Eastern Logistics, a subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines, has organized a charter flight preparation meeting and a charter flight implementation inspection meeting, and determined the route arrangement of "Shanghai Pudong Amsterdam Benghazi Amsterdam Shanghai Pudong" to ensure the rapid arrival of humanitarian supplies.

During the charter flight, in addition to the destination of China and Libya, there are also 15 overflight countries, including Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A total of 17 overflight countries need to complete their takeoff, landing, and overflight applications one by one. China Cargo Airlines, a subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines Logistics, which is responsible for all cargo aircraft transportation tasks, has communicated and coordinated with each other, provided application documents and supplementary information, and timely obtained approval.

In the planning of charter flights, according to relevant foreign regulations, it is not possible to fly directly to Europe from Libyan airspace. China Eastern Airlines has designed a route specifically for this purpose. The charter flight takes the route from Europe to the nearest Italian airspace in Libya and flies to Benghazi, while the return journey takes the route around Tunisian, Algerian airspace in North Africa, changes to French airspace and returns to European airspace, before returning to Shanghai from Amsterdam.

In addition, although Benghazi Airport, as the destination, has two runways, one of which has been closed for a long time, and the airport navigation facilities are not the best combination, and it is not possible to obtain the airport's weather information. China Eastern Airlines closely cooperated with multiple departments to provide weather information for the crew, and analyzed the distance and proximity of the alternate airport one by one. Finally, a combination of the recent alternate airport Misrata, Libya and the best alternate airport Cairo was developed, To meet the reliability guarantee of charter takeoff and landing and alternate landing.

Due to the long duration of the entire charter flight period, the support capacity for loading and unloading work at Benghazi Airport in Libya is unclear. China Eastern Airlines has also developed detailed flight schedule and transit control requirements, accurately analyzing the loading and unloading support time under flight time and corresponding cargo volume, and arranging to dispatch balance attendants to assist the crew in operating and ensuring transit locally.

It is worth mentioning that behind the smooth transportation of this charter flight, there is a joint effort from multiple disciplines and departments. During the collection and transportation phase of charter materials, the cargo station affiliated with China Eastern Airlines Logistics will activate a green channel at Pudong Airport, and arrange dedicated personnel to supervise and command on-site the collection, assembly, and loading of goods; In response to the characteristics of the long flight time and large time zone of this charter flight, China Cargo Airlines selected business backbone to lead the flight and completed the special charter flight task with high quality.

Responsible Editor Xu Ling

Text Li Jicheng

Source: Pudong Release

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