Accident filled season

Its been an accident filled Antarctica season. Beyond the normal frost nip and severed fingers, a number of strange incidents have occured. As you may have read, a cruise liner went down in the Antarctic waters south of Argentina after colliding with an iceberg. Everyone was rescued.

A truck on the Sea Ice carrying beakers and scientific equipment out to a field camp began leaking transmission fluid . . . the driver (who had been previously denied vehicle access due to, lets say, sub-par driving skills) didn't notice. A quarter mile later, this is the result.

Clean up crew were out on the sea ice for days. Raytheon is compelled to clean spills if photo's of the accident pop up.

So a boat and a car went down. Now a plane. The Basler (a DC-3 twin engine turbo prop airplane, as people who would know describe it) normally looks like this.

A crew of ten, including beakers, crew, and guides, were attempting to take off from a remote field camp, Mt. Patterson. When the plane reached flying speed, one wing tip lifted, the other did not. The result, in Raytheon lingo, was a plane 'incident'. So violent was the 'crash', that the seats became unbolted from the plane and the passengers and equipment were all thrown into a corner of the cabin. No major injuries were reported.

Survival gear aboard the aircraft allowed the crew to set up camp until two twin otters came to the rescue. Someday, another civilzation with find a banged up Basler in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica, and scratch their heads.