The other Alaska airlift: Volunteers save dogs from a flooded Alaska village, 1 tiny plane at a time

The special delivery arrived in a plastic storage box after a chartered flight in bouncy single-propeller plane. Veterinarian Susan Shaffer Sookram snipped the zip ties securing the lid and greeted the cargo: four dogs, one with a gray collar bearing its name, Happy.

“What a scary ride!" she said. “You made it!”