Private Drone Operators Deliver Aid After Hurricane Helene

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Private Drone Operators Deliver Aid After Hurricane Helene​

Private Drone Operators Deliver Aid After Hurricane Helene
October 11, 2024 by Miriam McNabb 1 Comment

Volunteers use heavy-lift drones to bring life-saving supplies to isolated communities in North Carolina’s mountainous region after roads are destroyed by the storm.​

By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill
After Hurricane Helene, a powerful and deadly storm, cut off almost all major roads serving western North Carolina, isolating thousands of people, a small group of private drone operators stepped in to deliver life-saving supplies.

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Jeff Clack, chief supervisor of operations for Bestway Ag, led a team of volunteers who flew heavy-lift drones to deliver food, medicine, baby formula and other much-needed supplies to about 100 people who were cut off from other help in the mountainous region. Clack and two other drone pilots from the Hopkinsville, Kentucky-based agricultural technology company, landed in the region within days after the storm hit and began coordinating with first responder teams on the ground and other drone pilots volunteering their services, in order to begin providing aid.

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