MEDICAL PATIENTS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the 277 passengers who were originally set to travel on the Hawaiian Airlines charter flight Tuesday night from Pago Pago to Honolulu, only 274 were on board when the aircraft took off around 12 midnight.
Information received by Samoa News on Monday this week...

![Christinna Lutu-Sanchez (second from right), American Samoa Medicaid Office director Sandra King-Young (third from right) posed for a photo with Lutu-Sanchez’s traveling companions at Pago Pago International Airport on Tuesday night before the Medicaid charter flight departed for Honolulu. The photo was posted on Lutu-Sanchez’s Facebook page and published by Samoa News with her permission. [photo: Lutu-Sanchez Facebook] Christinna Lutu-Sanchez (second from right), American Samoa Medicaid Office director Sandra King-Young (third from right) with Lutu-Sanchez’s traveling companions](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/travelers_medicaid_flight7390_n.jpg?itok=ZeJ8JnOQ)