muttiah and pilots have one main objective saving lives here 70 miles up or would you go with this is this actual better trade your group or the africa. search right is looking for by greg abbott the dangerous crossing. over boat there leipsic great risk. of finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack and conditions are anything but ideal. this you watch aircraft moon bird made me operates in the search and rescue zone off the coast of western libya an area that spans more than 350 kilometers of coastline this is where migrant boats set off on their perilous journey to italy and malta footage from an earlier mission shows how that looks dozens of people on an overcrowded rubber dinghy passengers often spend days out at sea exposed to the sun and with limited supplies and back to back to people of being on the water for days easily dehydrated desperate and in a serious medical condition those really are emergencies that have to be evacuated as soon as possible. because. after hours up in the air we spot a suspicious object in the water by a half. that's a sunken rabbiting.