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As the rescue effort was scaled back, the commander of US forces in Haiti said officials have opened a third alternative airport in the Dominican Republic, to hasten the movement of relief supplies in an attempt to clear the backlog of more than 1, 400 flights waiting to use the Haitian capital's airport.
General Douglas Fraser, head of US Southern Command, told a Pentagon news conference that 120-140 flights a day were able to land at what was the country's single airport in Port-au-Prince, which was damaged in Haiti earthquake.
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