A mercy flight carrying 109 adopted children from the devastation of earthquake-struck Haiti to new lives in Europe has left Port-au-Prince.
The Netherlands Adoption Foundation said the flight left the Haitian capital's airport early on Thursday morning Dutch time.
It will make a stop in the Dutch Antilles, before landing at a military airfield in the southern city of Eindhoven.
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"The mission is going to succeed!" the group said on its website.
The children on board the plane were all in the process of being adopted and already had been matched to new Dutch parents before last week's magnitude-7 quake reduced huge swathes of Haiti to rubble.
The quake is thought to have killed 75,000 people, with many more still missing, feared dead, amid the ruins.
But rescuers are still holding out hope of finding some survivors trapped in collapsed buildings: Two children were dug out alive on Wednesday.
Several planeloads of children have already been airlifted to new families in the United States.
