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Kenn Borek Air rescue flight returns to Rothera from South Pole station - Calgary - CBC News
Kenn Borek Air rescue flight returns to Rothera from South Pole station
Crew makes safe return to British Antarctic Survey Station after making pick-up at U.S. station farther south
CBC News Posted: Jun 22, 2016 7:36 AM MT Last Updated: Jun 22, 2016 12:23 PM MT
A Calgary-based team's perilous mission to fly in and rescue two people needing medical attention at a research facility in the Antarctic continues.
The crew has returned safely to the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Station after leaving the South Pole early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation.
After leaving Calgary June 14, the crew arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Tuesday afternoon and rested for 10 hours before beginning their return journey.
• Kenn Borek Air rescue flight lands at South Pole station
• Mission to Antarctica arrives in Rothera
The small Twin Otter plane operated by Calgary's Kenn Borek Air made the 2,400-kilometre, nine-hour trip on Tuesday through dark and cold from the British base on the Antarctic peninsula.
Two of the 48 people at the South Pole station are ill, and at least one of them needs medical care off the continent.
Officials were still determining whether the second patient needed to be brought out as well, but had not given any details on the person or condition. There was no word on whether one or two patients were to be flown out of the station.
It's midwinter in Antarctica, and the foundation said flights in and out of the station are usually not planned between February and October due to the extreme cold and darkness.
The rescue crew has begun its return journey to the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera station after resting for 10 hours at the South Pole. (National Science Foundation)