American flown to hospital after rare midwinter Antarctic rescue
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MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian air crew flew an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue.
The Airbus A319 Long Range aircraft, with the call sign Snowbird 1, flew from the Australian city of Hobart to the U.
McMurdo Station in Antarctica on July 31 in response to an “urgent request for assistance,” the jet’s Melbourne-based owner Skytraders said in a statement Thursday.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian air crew flew an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue.
The Airbus A319 Long Range aircraft, with the call sign Snowbird 1, flew from the Australian city of Hobart to the U.
McMurdo Station in Antarctica on July 31 in response to an “urgent request for assistance,” the jet’s Melbourne-based owner Skytraders said in a statement Thursday.