The temperature at the South Pole was -60 C.“There’s lots of monitoring on the gauges of the plane, on the weather. CALGARY — The Calgary-based crew that flew to a South Pole research station on a daring medical mission sang songs and snacked on hot soup during their perilous trip. “Running out of spicy Thai soup, which we did,” deadpanned Dobchuk when asked about his greatest fear. The team flew a 4,800-kilometre roundtrip from Britain’s Antarctic Rothera station to the South Pole and then back to Rothera with two sick workers. We sang it for three or four hours trying to kill the 9 1/2-hour flight.”The Twin Otter turboprop plane made the dangerous rescue flight in Antarctica’s harsh winter.

Source: National Post July 06, 2016 01:52 UTC