Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air may rescue second patient from South Pole

The U.S. National Science Foundation says two Twin Otter planes from Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air will wait at a British station in the Antarctic until weather permits them to fly another 2,400 kilometres to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to evacuate a seasonal employee.

• Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air may rescue second patient from South Pole
• 2 Canadian planes waiting to complete dangerous mission in ‘total darkness’ of Antarctic winter