Posted on February 3, 2004 at 4:35 p.m. | ||
WHAT: | Angel Flight, an organization of pilots who volunteer to fly their own aircraft on humanitarian missions, will carry UAB and other Birmingham healthcare workers on the first leg of Medical Mission Ecuador (MME), from Birmingham to Miami. They will fly some MME members back from Miami on Feb. 15. MME is a non-profit, volunteer effort by doctors, nurses and others to provide reconstructive surgery and other health care to indigent villagers in the mountains around the city of Ambato, Ecuador. (The main body of volunteers will depart Birmingham by commercial air on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. on Continental Airline.) | |
WHEN: | Wednesday, Feb. 4 | |
WHO: | David M. Knies Rebecca Langner | |
WHERE: | Mercury Air Center | |
BACKGROUND: | Angel Flight is primarily known for volunteer flights for individual patients who need help getting to necessary medical treatment elsewhere. Its corps of trained owner-operator pilots is available to help other types of humanitarian missions such as MME. | |
SCHEDULE: | 6:30 a.m. – Passengers arrive BHM-Mercury Air Center
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Media Advisory: Angel Flight Flies Med Mission First Leg of Trip to Ecuador
Angel Flight, an organization of pilots who volunteer to fly their own aircraft on humanitarian missions, will carry UAB and other Birmingham healthcare workers on the first leg of Medical Mission Ecuador (MME), from Birmingham to Miami.