An Airbus A340 of Hi Fly airways created history by landing in Antarctica. The 4200 km flight from Cape Town to Antarctica took more than 5 hours and returned the same day after spending 3 hours on the ground.
According to o CNN, the plane was commissioned by Wolf’s Fang, a new upscale adventure camp on the world’s southernmost continent, and brought much-needed supplies to the resort. Wolf’s Fang is a new project from high-end Antarctica tourism company the White Desert.
The crew of Hi Fly 801 (and its return trip to Cape Town, Hi Fly 802) was led by Captain Carlos Mirpuri, who is also Hi Fly’s vice president.
Each flight took between five and five and a half hours, and the team spent less than three hours on the ground in Antarctica, covering 2,500 nautical miles.
The blue-ice runway at the Wolf’s Fang property is designated a C Level airport, despite not technically being an airport. That means that only highly specialized crew can fly there due to challenging conditions.
We show you where exactly in Antarctica did this airplane land and the position with respect to India. Incidentally, the landing spot was close to our very own Dakshin Gangotri.
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