DC-3 crash in Antarctica

That would be good motivation I suppose.

I just hope the engineers were being well paid for working in those conditions.

Perhaps they were told that the alternative involved walking…:diablo:

Adrian

The true value of aluminium arcraft and skilled engineers able to work in challenging field conditions can,t imagine one of the new composite airframes being flown out!!.

Good news indeed!

I am constantly amazed by what can be achieved in the most difficult conditions and surely aircraft repairs (and most other things for that matter) in the Antarctic must fall under that category, even on a good day.

Well done to all involved.

Graeme

I just hope the engineers were being well paid for working in those conditions.

😮 Wow! 😮 I’ll second those thoughts – I’m guessing from the description that it was effectively a big groundloop at speed, with all the damage you’d expect from the undercart being wiped off.

Getting her back in the air from that, in those conditions, deserves a medal – and just goes to show that it takes a lot to kill a Dak!

I also love the understated caption to the (gory) photo from the first aid exercise…

Adrian

Truly a great job in the field! Here is a link to an antarctic blog full of photos. A bit of the way down is the repaired A/C, and quite a bit further down is a series of shots of the crash. Quite amazing that it was recoverable.

http://antarctica-coldman.blogspot.com/

Good news indeed!

I am constantly amazed by what can be achieved in the most difficult conditions and surely aircraft repairs (and most other things for that matter) in the Antarctic must fall under that category, even on a good day.

Well done to all involved.

Graeme

Great news!

One month to the day it had its mishap, the Turbo Dak flies out! A team of six engineers toiled under arduous conditions to repair the undercarriage and fit replacement engines. Rescue faciliated by Twin Otter.:)

Airplane damage: Substantial
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20071220-1

Looking at the Google map on that link, it would have been an interesting DC-3 flight from South America, in fact from Canada!

Airplane damage: Substantial
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20071220-1

It SOUNDS like a w/o from this latest report, a New Zealand newspaper!:D

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4335674a12.html

Well,I wouldn’t count on a NY Times writer knowing what the aircraft was supposed to look like (much less know what was major damage), nor to understand what someone else wrote, so I would wait for further, authorative word before giving up hope of recovery of the aircraft.

6 pax. 4 crew, guess it’s a w/o.:(

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/world/22briefs-polar.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

BT-67 C-FMKB, to be precise.

Seen in better days:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1122205/L/