An Antonov An-74 with broken landing gear at N89°
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An Antonov An-74 with broken landing gear at N89°
The Russian Geographical Society is currently setting up camp near the North Pole and posted this on Facebook the other day (via Google Translate):
Original post and translation.
First of all, more complete information about yesterday's incident with the plane. Yesterday we did not have the details, only knew that all alive and well.
So, yesterday, during the second voyage to the landing there was a destruction right rear landing gear of the aircraft.
Until a replacement arrives plane, delivery schedule people on an ice floe slightly shifted.
So, yesterday, during the second voyage to the landing there was a destruction right rear landing gear of the aircraft.
Until a replacement arrives plane, delivery schedule people on an ice floe slightly shifted.
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The aircraft has been repaired, apparently, and is now waiting for crew to take it back to Moscow.
Bigger picture in Norwegian language news article (Google translate).
Bigger picture in Norwegian language news article (Google translate).
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Apparently they didn't trust the aircraft to be flown out after all, and will instead retrieve it by icebreaker: Still stranded at the North Pole: / 'Must be retrieved with an icebreaker' (article in English.)
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Saga continues
According to a follow-up article from Svalbardposten the newspaper is no longer able to get any answers about the fate of this aircraft. Rescued? Still on the ice? Sunk?
In glorious Google Translateish:
"In early June, Svalbard Post reported that it would be retrieved with icebreaker "sometime in August."
Now refuses the Russian airline Shar Ink, which operated the flight, to answer how it has gone with the nearly 20,000-kilogram aircraft on the ice, as it has driven southwards towards the ice edge in the summer heat.
Repeated inquiries from Svalbard Posten email and phone the last two weeks have been fruitless."
In glorious Google Translateish:
"In early June, Svalbard Post reported that it would be retrieved with icebreaker "sometime in August."
Now refuses the Russian airline Shar Ink, which operated the flight, to answer how it has gone with the nearly 20,000-kilogram aircraft on the ice, as it has driven southwards towards the ice edge in the summer heat.
Repeated inquiries from Svalbard Posten email and phone the last two weeks have been fruitless."
