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News Release 07-189

NSF-chartered Plane Crashes While Taking Off from Remote Antarctic Field Camp

All 10 passengers and crew aboard uninjured; plane severely damaged

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Photo of DC-3T at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

A DC-3T Basler, operated by Kenn Borek Air in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, sits at Pegasus White Ice Runway near McMurdo Station.

Credit: Dominick Dirksen


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