Each day at the rally there is a special hero. Today's unexpected heroes are the three Antonov's who offered the solution to continue the rally in Lybia. In an approxiciatly 12 hours they make the rotation between Niamey and Sabah including embarking and debarking. The crew clear this job in about 1.5 hour. The Antonov's will need about 20 roundtrips to complete their mission and keeping up with an optimum timetable. With an average speed of 865 km/h, they will be able to chunk the 'Dakar' to Sabah in time to restart the rally on monday 17th according a slightly changed schedule.

The nose of the Antonov opens for loading and unloading.

All the organisation helicopters shipped in one time to Sabah together with some vehicles.

Each time about 4 trucks and 12 cars can be loaded into the huge cargobay.

Big clouds of dust blown up when the Antonov prepares to take-off.

Taking off with more then a 100 tonnes payload.