US, New Zealand search-and-rescue teams recalled from Antarctic plane crash site
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and Antarctica New Zealand have jointly decided to recall search-and-rescue teams from the site of an Antarctic aircraft crash after examination of the plane indicated that it would be unsafe at this point to further disturb the wreckage that is largely embedded in snow and ice on a steep mountain slope.