Created Tuesday 29 November 2021

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Posted by BeauHD on Monday November 29, 2021 07:30PM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from India Today:

For the first time in history, a commercial Airbus plane made a successful landing on the white continent of Antarctica. One of the company's A340 planes touched down on an ice runway earlier this month, paving the way for more tourism on the frozen landmass. The A340 took off on the morning of November 2 from Cape Town, South Africa before flying 2,500 nautical miles (4,630 km) to Antarctica. It then achieved an aviation first by successfully landing on a runway made of “blue glacial ice,” according to the aircraft's pilot, Captain Carlos Mirpuri.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/11/29/2229254/airbus-a340-plane-lands-on-antarctica-for-first-time