New Inwards The Antarctic Inwards 1961, A Three Twenty-Four Hours Blizzard Stuck, Winds Over 100 Mph, As Well As 1 Plane Disappeared... Well, Non Exactly, It Was Blown Fifteen Miles Along The H2o Ice Amongst The Brakes On As Well As Flora Days Afterward As Well As Miles Away

that is it on the exceed of the photo... the tires in addition to rims were worn away to the skis.

This blizzard continued unabated for ii days, in addition to on the 3rd twenty-four hr menses was yet gusting at over 100 knots. The Dakota was at the airfield at Rumdoodle when the blizzard struck.

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When the blizzard subsided sufficiently to venture outdoors, the Dakota had broken its tie-downs in addition to had disappeared. H5N1 few days later, when the weather condition had cleared, Graham Currie, riding a Velocette on the body of body of water H2O ice westward of Mawson, noticed something red, high upwards on the glacier top. Closer inspection confirmed that it was the dayglow ruddy tail of the Dakota.

The airplane had been blown past times the blizzard virtually xv miles downwardly gradient at sufficient speed, alongside brakes engaged, to apparel the tires in addition to bike rims even out alongside the skis. It came to balance after the undercarriage dropped into a crevasse on the cliff exceed virtually 400′ inwards a higher house the body of body of water ice.

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