South Pole Rescue Flight of 2 Sick Workers Leaves Antarctica
Source: Associated Press
South Pole Rescue Flight of 2 Sick Workers Leaves Antarctica
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP SCIENCE WRITER WASHINGTON — Jun 22, 2016, 6:41 PM ET
A small plane with two sick U.S. workers left Antarctica on Wednesday in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station, officials said.
After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers flew to Chile, where they were expected to arrive for medical care Wednesday evening, said British Antarctic Survey spokeswoman Athena Dinar.
In a hectic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole. They arrived back at Rothera on Wednesday afternoon, said Peter West, spokesman for the National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S. station.
Then the two workers boarded a second Canadian-owned Twin Otter plane that took off for Punta Arenas in southern Chile, Dinar said.
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