do when we came back so if I can continue with that we ended up getting to Davis about four hours later landed were sitting on the ground with the engine still turning they brought out the the person that was injured we loaded him on the aircraft we got turned around set power took off and was on our way back to South Pole when we started to get near that same that same opening that we'd cross by when we were going to Davis so we got within a certain I don't know so many miles I think he was with him NUMBER_TOKEN miles or something and the reason I remember that is because their navigator said okay we're coming up on that opening we saw again because the Navigator tracks where we're going in in distance and position all the time because we have to make position reports to McMurdo's so that they know where we're at in case something happens and we have to land on the Omni on the continent so we were going there and we got a radio call from the personnel at South Pole because we were reporting in we were so many miles out and that our estimated South Pole was going to be at this time but what they said was okay actually Delta zero for let's call it x-ray Delta zero for please do not continue your course directly to South Pole we want you to divert make a left turn let's just say NUMBER_TOKEN degrees and we'll give you the heads-up when we want you to turn back on course so that's what we did so when we turned we were so far away from that opening that actually we couldn't see it from where we're at at that time we were like NUMBER_TOKEN feet on our way back to pull and so we got to call then from South Pole the controller there saying okay go ahead and turn back on course so we turn back on course headed back into South Pole and landed when we refueled in South Pole we didn't take on a full bag of fuel but we put on enough to get us back to McMurdo because the patient was in critical condition and we didn't want to waste any time so we put enough gas on there just to get back to pole so we we took off and made the three hour and ten minutes of flight back pretty much really fast and normally we cruise about NUMBER_TOKEN feet from pole to McMurdo because about time you get up to NUMBER_TOKEN feet you're on your way back down anyways for landing so we were hauling pretty good and we got back in under three hours we shaved off about NUMBER_TOKEN minutes just by you know not flying the normal airspeed that we would normally fly we landed in McMurdo taxi under the ramp they had an ambulance waiting for us for the for the for the patient we shut down engines they offloaded him on to another aircraft and other crew had been waiting to take him back to Christchurch New Zealand so they offloaded him then we put the airplane to bed my job as the engineer was to post-flight the aircraft and make sure that it was okay to fly if anything was wrong with it I had to write up the discrepancies and give it to our man's control people so that they could fix the aircraft for for the next mission for the next crew so we went back up everybody got in the van and drove back up to McMurdo and got out and we had to go back into operations or the puzzle palace as we call it and we were told that the crew had to wait here instead of doing the normal debrief with our operations guy and then going back to get something
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