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This is John Batchel, speaking with colleague Cleo Pascal, who's in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.

She introduces me to Amos Collins, the chief pilot for Pacific Mission

Airways. A church donated and church-maintained airplane, two airplanes that fly between the very far

apart islands of the Federated States of Micronesia.

They're divided into four parts.

One of them is headquartered at Yap, where Cleo bases.

She was out to Woolliye.

And here Amos gives us an understanding of the scale of the FSM

and what he had to do during the COVID crisis for medical emergencies, what he does routinely to connect the islands.

The only other possibility is a very old freighter donated by the PRC.

It takes days and days and days a whole day and a night to travel what takes a half

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