MOZAMBIQUE: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AT MAPUTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH INCREASES IN AIR TRAFFIC AS RESULT OF INTERNATIONAL AID EFFORT

Record ID: 978107

  • Title: MOZAMBIQUE: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AT MAPUTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH INCREASES IN AIR TRAFFIC AS RESULT OF INTERNATIONAL AID EFFORT
  • Date: 6th March 2000
  • Summary: MAPUTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 6, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. GV: PLANES AT MAPUTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT/ AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER 0.08 2. MV: INSIDE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (3 SHOTS) 0.23 3. EXT: EXTERIOR - HELICOPTER/PLANES COMING IN TO LAND (3 SHOTS) 0.57 4. INT: AIR CONTROLLER LOOKINGTHROUGH BINOCULARS; CONTROL ROOM (2 SHOTS) 1.01 5. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) NJAMA BAKARI, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SUPERVISOR, SAYING: We are used to about 50 flights a day; we are now having about 200 movements (flights) a day. It is a little bit out of normal for us. What we are doing is trying to cope. 1.11 6. GV: BRITISH PUMA HELICOPTERS ON RUNWAY 1.24 7. SV: LANICK HILL (SUNGLASSES), PILOT WITH PRIVATE HELICOPTER COMPANY CALLED CHOPPER FLYING FORCES, SAYING:" Air control normally deal with 5 or 6 a day. They've been thrown into the deep end. If you've been in London at four o'clock on a Friday, you know what it feels like coming into this place. You got to dodge air traffic." 2.01 LIMPOPO RIVER, NORTH OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 6, 2000) (POOL) 8. AERIAL: AREAS WHICH HAD BEEN FLOODED AND WHERE WATER HAS NOW RECEDED, LEAVING HUGE PATCHES OF MUD 2.06 CHIBUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 6, 2000) (POOL) 9. MV: PEOPLE DISEMBARKING FROM PUMA HELICOPTER ONTO DRY LAND 2.15 10. MV/SV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) FLIGHT LIEUTENANT TONY ADAMSON, BRITISH AIR CREW MEMBER, SAYING: "We had heard that there were some people who needed help but when we went to find them we found they wanted to stay put in their villages. The flood water has receded so they want to stay where they are. So now we are trying to provide food to them." (2 SHOTS) 2.40 11. PAN: PLANE TO AID ON FLOOR 2.49 12. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF REFUGEES IN CAMP (7 SHOTS) 3.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MAPUTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, LIMPOPO RIVER AND CHIBUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
  • Country: Mozambique
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