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Taxis light up remote airstrip in Peru for medivac flight
Their lights blaring in the night, hundreds of taxis lined an unlit airstrip in a jungle region of Peru so an emergency medivac plane with three very sick patients could take off.
All three survived after the 300-odd drivers of motorcycles fashioned into small taxis with compartments for passengers heeded a call Wednesday night from a radio station to race to the 800-meter airstrip in Contamana, in one of Peru's poorest regions, Peruvian media reported Thursday.
The airstrip is not equipped for nocturnal flights because it has no lights. The patients were a woman and her newborn, both with serious problems after delivery, and a man with a tropical disease.
"We have always been people with a heart," said Adolfo Lobo, the radio presenter who put out the call for help.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130404/taxis-light-remote-airstrip-peru-medivac-flight-0