Shortly after getting airborne he told us we were making a 20 minute detour on the way to the pole. Upstream D had been the talk of McMurdo for three weeks. Borrowed Images' The area is actually a moving ice stream. As the ice moves, it creates cracks known as crevasses. These become covered with snow, so that they are difficult to spot.
Crevasses are one of the big hazards down here.
The aircraft was taxiing when the landing gear fell into the crevasse. They have been making plans for trying to remove the aircraft, and a crew had come through Siple Dome on the flight Monday, on the way down there. We circled the aircraft several times, I was able to get a few photos with my regular camera, but these shots that are floating around camp are much better than anything I took from the back of the airplane. The story from our local paper 'Antarctic Sun'. The Antarctic continent consists of several distinct areas.