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A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew conducts the first post-storm damage assessment flights over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew on October 5, 2016. (Coast Guard video)
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew takes off from Air Station Borinquen in Puerto Rico for the first post-storm damage assessment flight over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew on October 5, 2016. (Coast Guard photo by Matt Udkow)
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew prepares the plane at Air Station Borinquen in Puerto Rico for the first post-storm damage assessment flight over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew on October 5, 2016. (Coast Guard photo by Matt Udkow)
Views of Haiti from a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane crew conducting post-storm damage assessment flights October 5, 2016, following Hurricane Matthew. (Coast Guard photos)
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew welcomes aboard Jocelerme Privert, interim president of Haiti, on October 5, 2016, for the first post-storm damage assessment flight over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew. (Coast Guard photo)
Jocelerme Privert, interim president of Haiti, and Peter F. Mulrean, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, inspect damage Haitian communities from a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane conducting a post-storm damage assessment flight October 5, 2016, over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew. (Coast Guard photo)
Jocelerme Privert, interim president of Haiti, and Peter F. Mulrean, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, receive a safety briefing on a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane prior to a post-storm damage assessment flight October 5, 2016, over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew. (Coast Guard photo)
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane crew conducted the first post-storm damage assessment flights Wednesday over Haiti following Hurricane Matthew.
The Ocean Sentry crew reported heavy coastal flooding and significant damage to infrastructure in southern Haiti. The crew also reported damage to highways, structures and houses along the northern region of Haiti and the south side of Isle De La Tortue.
Jocelerme Privert, interim president of Haiti, Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti’s Civil Protection Division, Peter F. Mulrean, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Jonathon Anderson, senior program manager for the U.S. Agency of International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and Peter Reese, United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination representative joined the Ocean Sentry crew on the damage assessment flight over Haiti.
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