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Location: En-route to Banda Aceh, Sumatra
Title: RAF flies UN aid into Indonesia.
Date: January, 2020.

Royal Air Force air transport aircraft have been heavily involved in the international relief operation, especially C-17 heavy airlifters delivering equipment, including stores donated by Scandinavian partners, to allow the United Nations to establish relief operations in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. As noted on the United Nations Joint Logistic Centre's website, the RAF C-17s provided a unique capability during the initial phase of the international airlift. An RAF Mobile Air Movements team, originally deployed to the region specifically to support the C-17s, is based at the airport at Banda Aceh, which is so critical to the relief effort in the worst affected region of Indonesia, to help Indonesian and Australian personnel maximise the number of relief flights able to use the airfield. Two military logistic planning experts have also been sent from the UK to reinforce the World Food Programme coordination team working in Jakarta. C-17, Tristar and Hercules aircraft continue to deliver humanitarian aid and support equipment to Indonesia. Hundreds of tonnes of equipment and aid has now been flown into the disaster area, including an emergency fuel farm for the United Nations.

An eye-witness account of the first day's of the RAF aid flights, please click here.

All images are Crown Copyright. Images by Corporal Paul Saxby, Strike Command.

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RAF flies aid into Banda Aceh
Final preparations for a C-17 pilot before landing at Billund in Denmark to pick up its load.
Final preparations for a C-17 pilot before landing at Billund in Denmark to pick up its load.
Part of the 60 tonne load being moved inside the aircraft. The cargo consisted of food water purification equipment, shelter, building materials and vehicles.
Part of the 60 tonne load being moved inside the aircraft. The cargo consisted of food water purification equipment, shelter, building materials and vehicles.
A view inside the vast hold of the
A view inside the vast hold of the
C-17.
RAF movements personnel prepare to load a C-17 transport aircraft with UN Humanitarian Aid parcels and equiment at Panang airport for delivery to Banda Aceh in Sumatra.
RAF movements personnel prepare to load a C-17 transport aircraft with UN Humanitarian Aid parcels and equiment at Panang airport for delivery to Banda Aceh in Sumatra.
RAF personnel load humanitarian aid onto a C-17 transport aircraft at Penang airport in Malaysia. Alongside the C-17 is a Tristar from No 216 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton.
RAF personnel load humanitarian aid onto a C-17 transport aircraft at Penang airport in Malaysia. Alongside the C-17 is a Tristar from No 216 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton.
An RAF C-17 stands on the manouvering area of Banda Aceh airport in Sumatra after delivering a huge consignment of humanitarian aid.
An RAF C-17 stands on the manouvering area of Banda Aceh airport in Sumatra after delivering a huge consignment of humanitarian aid.
Checking the instruments en-route to Banda Aceh.
Checking the instruments en-route to Banda Aceh.
An RAF Tristar at Penang Airport after delivering aid. The aid is to be delivered to Banda Aceh by the C-17 transport aircraft.
An RAF Tristar at Penang Airport after delivering aid. The aid is to be delivered to Banda Aceh by the C-17 transport aircraft.

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