South Pole Medical Evacuation

A Twin Otter aircraft successfully completes unprecedented medical-evacuation mission to the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Two Lockheed Martin contract workers at the station had become seriously ill in what at the South Pole is the dead of winter. The plane’s crew faced risky conditions including pitch darkness and temperatures of minus 103 degrees Fahrenheit that could cause plane equipment to malfunction. The Twin Otter safely touched down at the South Pole Wednesday afternoon, June 22nd. Shortly thereafter, the patients boarded the Twin Otter for the 1,500 mile flight back to the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Station, on the Antarctic Peninsula. A short time later, they boarded a second Twin Otter for the final leg of the mission, landing in Punta Arenas, Chile late Wednesday evening. The two workers were then transported to a local medical facility for treatment. While there have been three previous emergency medical evacuations, this is the first deep Antarctic winter evacuation ever.

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I think the pilots were Canadian.