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."