Insights into their ongoing and unpunished aerial complicity in human rights violations Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, has the task of preventing people on the move from crossing the external borders of the European Union. In the Central Mediterranean, Frontex is not currently present with naval assets but rather operates aerial reconnaissance aircraft which…
This factsheet outlines a summary of the distress cases witnessed in March 2021 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew with their aircraft Moonbird and Seabird. In March 2021 we flew 9 missions, with a total flight time of 51 hours and 42 minutes. We spotted around 476 persons in distress aboard 7 different boats. *Since 2017, together…
This factsheet outlines a summary of the distress cases witnessed in February 2021 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew with their aircraft Moonbird and Seabird.* In February 2021 we flew 14 missions, with a total flight time of 78 hours and 37 minutes. We spotted around 2344 persons in distress in 29 different boats. *Since 2017, together…
Airborne is a department of Sea-Watch e.V. which monitors the Central Mediterranean using the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird and Seabird, in order to document human rights violations and spot people in distress. These operations are conducted together with the Swiss NGO Humanitarian Pilots Initiative. The purpose of the following Annual Report 2020 is to provide an overview…
This factsheet presents a summary of distress cases witnessed by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew from the aircraft Moonbird.* From November 2020 to January 2021, primarily due to bad weather in the Central Mediterranean Sea, we flew only 16 missions with a total flight time of 73 hours and 22 minutes. We spotted around 165 persons in…
