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Emergency team loses eighteen bags with medical supplies for Ukraine on KLM flight | NOW

An American aid team lost eighteen bags with medical supplies for Ukraine this week after a stopover at Schiphol. The luggage was lost for unknown reasons when the Americans flew from Amsterdam to Poland with a KLM aircraft, Kurtis Pasqualle of the aid team told NU.nl. The items have still not arrived.

KLM cannot confirm the story of the Americans, but if the airline had a role in missing the luggage, that is “extremely annoying”, a spokesperson said. KLM also says it is investigating the situation.

Due to the problems at Schiphol, the company is left with many more suitcases than usual. On Friday it turned out that such a 600 suitcases of KLM passengers still waiting to be delivered to their owner.

The large bags contained all kinds of relief supplies for Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. It mainly concerns medical devices, says Pasqualle from the Polish city of Krakow to NU.nl. He is on his way to eastern Ukraine with a team of other veterans, but can’t go any further now. In addition to all medical supplies, the equipment of the veterans is also in the lost suitcases.

The group flew from Atlanta to Amsterdam this week. Then the trip went to Poland. From there, the group would travel on to Ukraine. But things went wrong along the way. The team arrived in Krakow on Wednesday, but the luggage was not on the belt. How that comes about is not clear. Pasqualle says he hadn’t heard from KLM until Thursday evening. He suspects the bags were returned to Atlanta. That means some of the team may have to go back to the US to pick up the gear, he says.

The relief team, founded in Oklahoma, consists of more than twenty war veterans with medical training. They now have people in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa and at the front in the east.

Pasqualle decided to act when he saw the bombing of hospitals and the destruction of infrastructure in Ukraine. “There is a humanitarian crisis going on there and we have all been to combat zones. Besides, we are all medical professionals,” Pasqualle said in an interview with the local broadcaster in March. News 9.

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