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MANILA: The Armed Forces of the Philippines is conducting its own version of bayanihan in flood-hit towns in Cagayan province, in a mission the AFP called “air drop relief operations.”

In a video posted on the AFP’s Twitter account, the chopper pilot “dangerously” hovers a few feet above the ground to drop relief goods for flood victims in Amulung, Cagayan – one of several towns in the province hit hardest by the massive floods spawned by Typhoon Ulysses’ heavy rains.

Several AFP posts about the “air drop relief” operations indicate that the AFP relief mission teams are doing the “risky air drop stunt” in other towns in Cagayan because the soil in flooded areas is dangerously too soft for the chopper to land on.

One to the posts said that the chopper is more unstable when it is close to the ground to drop the goods – in a risky bayanihan stunt.