In the first half of 2020, Maltese authorities were implicated in multiple failures to respect and protect the rights of refugees and migrants at sea. Under their coordination, people were pushed back to Libya, a country at war where refugees and migrants are systematically abused. Delays in attending to distress calls exposed people to the…
This factsheet outlines a summary of distress cases witnessed by Airborne with Moonbird and Seabird.1 In July 2020, we flew 19 missions, for 93 hours 18 minutes. We spotted more than 1.344 persons in distress. Download Full Report Overview of the distress cases, empty boats and dead bodies spotted Maltese Search-and-Rescue (SAR) zone 4 distress…
This factsheet outlines a summary of distress cases witnessed by Airborne with Moonbird and Seabird. In June 2020, we flew 14 missions, for 74 hours 01 minute. We spotted more than 953 persons in distress. Download Full Report Overview of the distress cases, empty boats and dead bodies spotted Italian Search-and-Rescue (SAR) zone 2 distress cases…
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Thursday morning, the Sea-Watch 3 was alerted by our civil search aircraft Moonbird of multiple distress cases and immediately engaged in the successful rescue of 60 survivors on board a rubber boat in international waters. Before conducting a second rescue of 17 people, Sea-Watch found an empty fibreglass boat and witnessed 150 more people being…
