Air Serv International is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that uses aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to help victims of disasters in some of the most remote and challenging areas in the world.
[4] Air Serv was active in Banda Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Tsunami and late in 2005 was involved in relief work following the Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan.
An Air Serv Cessna Caravan registration 5X-ASI had to perform a forced landing shortly after takeoff from Maridi, Sudan, when it suffered engine failure.
[(Aviation Safety Network)] According to the authors of The Power of Unreasonable People Air Serv has provided more than 150,000 flights enabling hundreds of humanitarian relief organizations access to parts of the world under stress.
[19] The environment that Air Serv operates in is often war torn countries, ravaged by fighting and unrest between rebel forces and governments.
[18] One pilot working with Air Serv recounted how she was held at gunpoint by a local needing transportation until the police aided her in resolving the issue.
[18] Landing in mud so deep that the plane becomes stuck requiring locals to dig out with machetes [23] and rain that is so severe that it removes paint from the aircraft are just a few of the weather related challenges Air Serv has faced.