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Aircraft bound for an Italian base missing in Antarctica

Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica - Search and rescue operations hampered by weather conditions

An airplane of the Canadian company Kenn Borek Air Ltd , which took off from the US "Amundson-Scott" South Pole Base and bound for an Italian base in the Terra Nova Bay with three Canadian passengers on board, vanished in the evening of Wednesday 23 January 2013. The involved aircraft is a DHC-6 Twin Otter, a STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) twin-engined airplane. The Emergency Locator Transmitter...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1149187
Rome, Italy, 01/24/2013 13:08
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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