John Travolta Pilots Haiti Relief Flight

(AP)  John Travolta has flown a jetliner carrying relief supplies into the Haitian capital, along with doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology.

The 55-year-old actor piloted his own Boeing 707 from Florida with six tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for survivors of Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake late Monday.

His wife, Kelly Preston, was also aboard.

"We have the ability to actually help make a difference in the situation in Haiti and I just can't see not using this plane to help," Travolta said.

Travolta compared the mission to aid efforts following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. "We were there right away, with this airplane, because you know we have the ability and the means to do this so I think you have responsibility on some level to do that."

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Aid groups have been desperate to fly their own planes into the over-stressed airport. U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said Tuesday that at least 800 planes with relief items are on a waiting list for the airport, which can handle only about 130 flights a day due to a lack of space to park planes as they unload.

The aid group Doctors Without Borders has complained that the flight scheduling priorities of U.S. military controllers running the airport delayed the arrival of field hospitals, resulting in some deaths.

More than 150,000 people have already been buried since the magnitude-7 quake, which destroyed entire Port-au-Prince neighborhoods and landmarks and crumbled nearby towns.

Hundreds of thousands of people are living in the streets, with scores of injured wanting for proper medical care.

Travolta and Preston returned to Florida as soon as their supplies and passengers were unloaded.

[CompletelyFrustrated]

I like the way they keep throwing the Doctors without borders crap out there every time. THEY ARE ALREADY IN HAITI!!!!!

This is also a political organization and the last thing the poor people of Haiti needs is a pack of activists telling them that they coutry is in ruins - they know this already.

Check out their website, I can certainly understand why they would be refused entry - this organization is not just Doctors and Nurses they are a wide array of activist who protest humanitarian issues. "MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols."
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/?ref=main-menu

Under the tab "field news" it says that there are teams already in Haiti, they know how bad it is they need skilled medical staff not the other people that will show up under this organization to cry ans complain about the bad conditions.

Travolta is a class act and while he brought a few ministers from his belief there, he also brought food and other necessities.

[ram50]

I thought it was a great humanitarian act of John Travolta flying to Haiti with a group of nurses & supplies BUT when I heard Scientology ministers tagged along I asked WHY???? Conflict of interest--- the people of Haitifollow their own religion.Catholicism & Protestant!

[cleric60]

In 1954, the year Scientology was established as a religion.[28] This creed states that all church members believe that people "of whatever race, color, or creed were created with equal rights."[10][29] It holds that all people "have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance," as well as their "lives," "sanity" and "defense", and that they have inalienable rights to "choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments," and "to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others
So, I ask why bring Scientology minister's on a medical assistance if
90% are Romand Catholic 10%? are Protestant????
Let's theologically confuse the Haitians more about their beliefs in God.

[jd2408]

Oh yes, thats whats been missing, the "Scientology Ministers". Why didn't someone think of that sooner. Too bad for the aid groups that can't get in.