I began writing this book in mid-November 2013. At that time, super typhoon Haiyan had already caused landfall in the central Philippines. The typhoon hit landfall on Friday, November 8, killing several thousand people and leaving over a million homeless. The huge scale of death and destruction from the storm became clearer as reports emerged of thousands of people missing, and images showed apocalyptic scenes in towns that were not even reached by rescue workers in time. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded, typhoon Haiyan, levelled Basey, a seaside town in Samar province about 10 km across a bay from Tacloban in Leyte province, where at least 10,000 people were killed. Overall United Nations figures reflected that more than 11 million people were believed to have been affected and some 673,000 were displaced. Many States pledged support and assistance, which the United Nations estimated at 300 million or more. Aircraft kept coming with food, medical aid, and water, but to the wrong airport of Cebu, quite a distance away from Tacloban, where there was an airport but with a shorter runway than what Cebu International Airport had. If donor States had used C-130 aircraft which could land in Tacloban, the food, water, and other supplies could have got through to those in need in much less time. But the supplies were stranded in Cebu, with no internal infrastructure to get them in time to the starving and the thirsty who were drinking contaminated water just to survive. It is worthy of note that the 38th Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), held at ICAO’s Headquarters in September/October 2013 adopted a Resolution which said, inter alia, that there is a need for future generations of aircraft to be designed so that they are capable of being operated efficiently, and with the least possible environmental disturbance, from aerodromes used for the operation of present-day aircraft.