MAF pilot Sean Cannon in Kalimantan, Indonesia, tells about one of the many medical evacuation flights he does using the float plane.

After flying over four hours in the middle of Borneo navigating low rivers, reverse currents, boaters, swimmers, logs, docks, and shooting eight landings, this is why we do it … for that one flight that makes all the others seem unimportant. This passenger was an 18-year-old girl whom I was told had heart problems. I flew her from Central Kalimantan back to our base in PalangkaRaya, which was a 40-minute flight. The alternative would have been an eight-hour (or longer) drive over a terrible road. Since we couldn’t get an ambulance to come pick her up, some of the MAF staff drove her to the hospital in the back of our beat-up MAF car, accompanied by her mom and a nurse.