Haiti Confusion

Over the past 10 days or so I've seen at least 15 references to "C-141's" delivering aid to Haiti. I was going to track them all here; but folks should know better.

It's strange/funny/sad how we could get a C-141 there on very short notice to evacuate Haiti's leading thug (see Time Magazine article from 2001 ) ... but it took a week or more to get any sort of serious relief effort going this time.

It really makes me wonder what would happen in this country if there was another serious natural disaster such as Katrina. We sadly proved then we could not respond quickly but one would think that some remedial fixes to our massive unpreparedness for such an event MIGHT have been implemented in the years since ... evidently not.

7 February 1986 --- A C-141 crew from the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, South Carolina, flies Haitian president Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, his family, and staff from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to exile in France.

Here's the passenger list:

1. Jean-Claude Duvalier
2. Michèle Bennett Duvalier
3. Alix Pasquet Jr.
4. Sacha Pasquet
5. Nicolas Duvalier
6. Anya Duvalier
7. Simone Ovide Duvalier
8. Marie-Denise Duvalier Théard
9. Mario Théard
10. Mirca Théard
11. Aurore Bennett
12. Pierre-Marie Ligondé
13. Capucine (a young Haitian homeless girl that had been taken into the Duvalier household by Michèlle Bennet)
14. Woody Bennett
15. Hans Thiesfield
16. Joanne Thisfield
17. Stanislas Thisfield
18. Kosta Thisfield
19. Philippe Biambi
20. Lt. Jean-Thomas Cyprien
21. Sgt. Lt. Raymond Ravilus