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Nicobars find the force is with them
They had lost everything when the tsunami hit, including family members, but, says Capt Dhar, they continued to work ceaselessly under great stress.
All but six of the men here at the time have been pulled out.
The new commander now overseas the flights supplying Car Nicobar’s runway “day and night”.
It is part of an unprecedented relief effort for this southern part of the Andamans archipelago, the part worst hit by December’s tsunami.
The Indian air force has flown 50 sorties a day using its Russian-made transport aircraft.
A part of the runaway was damaged by the tsunami, but the planes have kept coming.
Captain Dhar says that since the air traffic building was also badly damaged, they have been operating a portable air traffic control on a pick-up truck.
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January 12, 2005 at 1:17 pm