Images of United Airlines relief flight to Haiti
Purser Supervisor Carol Bartacchi hugs Managing Director of Corporate Social Investment Sonya Jackson after their return from United Airlines first relief flight to Haiti and back.
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Flight attendant Corrine Hart-Cooley helps spell a mother by taking 2-month old Jamesly Paul for a walk around the cabin during Uniteds first relief flight to and from Port Au Prince Haiti.
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Passengers leaving Haiti arrive at OHare Airport in Chicago Wednesday night.
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Flight attendant Corrine Hart-Cooley wraps a blanket around a child before deplaning in Chicago on United Airlines first relief trip to Haiti.
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United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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Edge Outreach, a group headed to Haiti to help with water purification, provided all their people with a handbook for their trip. It included phone numbers, names and pictures of the people on the trip and information about Haiti.
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United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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United Airlines first relief flight to Haiti sits on the tarmac in Port Au Prince Wednesday.
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US citizens living in Haiti reported waiting over 10 hours through various layers of processing through several organizations in order to get on a flight.
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Evacuees board United Airlines first relief flight to Haiti Wednesday.
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Folks stuck in Haiti board Uniteds first relief flight for a return to Chicago. The 71 passengers were US citizen sor visa holders.
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The scene on the ground as United Airlines brings its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups.
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The United Airlines flight crew poses for pictures by their fellow ground crew employees in Haiti. United had to take ground crew and mechanics with them since they dont fly to Haiti normally.
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Governor Pat Quinn talks with United Airlines Sonya Jackson after Uniteds relief trip to Haiti.
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Flight attendant Corrine Hart-Cooley helps spell a mother by taking 2-month old Jamesly Paul for a walk around the cabin during Uniteds first relief flight to and from Port Au Prince Haiti.
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United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
RICK WEST/rwest@dailyherald.com
United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
RICK WEST/rwest@dailyherald.com
United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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Folks stuck in Haiti board Uniteds first relief flight for a return to Chicago. The 71 passengers were US citizen sor visa holders.
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Karem Korkmaz of Lakeview looks over the scene as they wait for their ride in Port Au Prince. He and a group of other nurses and a doctor from Illinois Masonic Hospital teamed with a Lisle business, Chasing Lions, to come and help.
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Folks stuck in Haiti board Uniteds first relief flight for a return to Chicago. The 71 passengers were US citizen sor visa holders.
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Philippe Gaspard of United Airlines talks with US government officials as he tries to fill Uniteds first relief flight to Port Au Prince with passengers for the trip back. Gaspard is from Arlington Heights and used to live in Haiti. His brother and sister are still there, and both came through the earthquake OK.
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Relief workers arriving on the ground in Haiti cover their ears as a cargo jet starts its engines behind them.
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United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
RICK WEST/rwest@dailyherald.com
United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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Folks stuck in Haiti board Uniteds first relief flight for a return to Chicago. The 71 passengers were US citizen sor visa holders.
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United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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Capt. Greg Downs gets interviewed before United Airlines loads its first relief flight to Haiti with cargo from Walgreens as well as other companies and relief groups. Relief workers are headed there as well.
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