Yesterday I had two rotations, one was all passengers and the other almost all freight.
Until Sunday evening I was only expecting one flight out to Motot for Tearfund. On Sunday evening a request came in to Ops for a flight to take eight people from Torit out to Lokichogio in Kenya and that flight was slotted in before the Motot flight.
The flight from Torit to Loki was for Caritas Switzerland and was uneventful.
The freight for Motot consisted mostly of plastic water pipes, bags of cement and plastic chairs and tables. After offloading the freight and before departing again for Juba there was a bit of a commotion in the village and a single gunshot rang out, followed by armed men moving out from the village towards the bush. We left rather promptly after that! I've since learned that some cattle raiders had been seen some distance away and the shot was a sign to the youth of the village to mobilize to intercept the raiders. Another day in South Sudan...
