The New England Patriots' team plane is once again being commissioned to assist in humanitarian relief efforts.
The team's Boeing 767 airliner was reportedly being loaded with supplies and medical equipment on Friday to help with disaster relief in Haiti, which was recently struck by yet another devastating earthquake and then pounded by a tropical storm.
The death toll from the series of calamities was recently estimated to be at least 2,000 people, according to CBS Boston, while thousands others were thought to be injured, homeless, and without basic necessities in the small Caribbean nation, which shares an island with the Dominican Republic.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been generous in deploying the aircraft -- whose fuselage is emblazoned with the team's logo -- in similar endeavors in recent years.
Last year, the plane was used to pick up countless pallets stacked high with N95 respirator masks from China, amid a nationwide shortage during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in the US.
In February, the plane was also used to shuttle dozens of vaccinated healthcare workers to the Super Bowl in Tampa, where they were honored for their service on the front lines of the pandemic. Later, the plane carried hundreds of thousands of doses of the coronavirus vaccine to El Salvador.
Prior to this month's 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the country was wracked by at least two other strong temblors in the past decade-plus, including one that struck the capital city of Port-au-Prince in 2010.
As well, the recent quake and tropical storm came just weeks after the country saw mass political upheaval following the July assassination of former President Jovenel Moise.
The Patriots' plane was set to depart from Boston for Haiti on Saturday, according to CBS Boston.
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