Friday March 1, 2013
Mozambique air space between Pemba and the Messalo River Valley
11:00 CAT (Central Africa Time) [5:00 AM Freedom City]
Though it was not yet mid-day on the southeastern coast of Africa, the temperature had already reached the high eighties, without accounting for humidity. Rain clouds lay to the west, though that was hardly unusual as March was the wettest month of the year for this region of Mozambique.
An old, Soviet made Mil Mi-8 (Hip) helicopter was flying lo