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UTC Climate, Controls & Security
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UTC Aerospace Systems
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UTC Climate, Controls & Security
November 13, 2012
Sikorsky Aircraft Delivers Supplies to Staten Island, Victims of Hurricane Sandy
HARTFORD, Conn. – Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), continues to support emergency personnel in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. A Sikorsky S-76® helicopter and crew took part in humanitarian disaster relief efforts last Friday, Nov. 9, as recovery work continued in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Sikorsky had volunteered to provide free emergency transport services to all three states following the devastating storm.
The Sikorsky crew included test pilots from the company’s Stratford, Conn., headquarters where the aircraft operates when it’s not housed at Sikorsky’s Associated Aircraft Group (AAG) service facility in New York. The aircraft and crew joined other volunteer flight teams and worked under the direction of the Eastern Region Helicopter Council. Each airlifted supplies to Staten Island University Hospital in New York, which distributed them to local families impacted by “super storm” Sandy. The Sikorsky pilots flew five separate sorties before returning to Stratford.
The helicopters ferried bottled water, snacks, juice, formula, diapers, toilet paper, paper towels, duct tape, plastic totes and storage bins, contractor bags, work gloves, first aid kits, latex and non-latex gloves, flashlights, batteries and other items in short supply. New York Police Department trucks delivered the bulk of the supplies to the Father Capodanno Boulevard area of Staten Island.
United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.
