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Mozambique: Wrongly arrested MAF pilot returns home

Mozambique: Wrongly arrested MAF pilot returns home
Photo: Ryan Koher and family | MAF
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
15 November, 2023 1 min read

A Christian pilot who flew for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and was wrongly arrested in Mozambique has been allowed to return to America.

Ryan Koher was detained in November 2022 along with two South African men on suspicion of supporting insurgents.

But Koher was in fact flying medicines and food supplies to an orphanage in the north of the country.

Mozambique: Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot held in prison
American pilot Ryan Koher and two South African volunteers have spent weeks in prison in Mozambique after being detained on 4 November. Koher, who works for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), was imprisoned in the Montepuez District by police while delivering medical supplies and vitamins for variou…
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