Travolta flies jet with relief supplies to Haiti

John Travolta has flown a jetliner carrying relief supplies into the Haitian capital, along with doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology.

The actor piloted his own Boeing 707 from Florida with six tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for survivors of Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, The Associated Press reports.

His wife, Kelly Preston, was also aboard.

"We have the ability to actually help make a difference in the situation in Haiti and I just can't see not using this plane to help," Travolta said. Aid groups have been desperate to fly their own planes into the over-stressed airport. United Nations humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said yesterday that at least 800 planes with relief items are on a waiting list for the airport, which can handle only about 130 flights a day due to a lack of space to park planes as they unload.

Travolta and Preston returned to Florida as soon as their supplies and passengers were unloaded.