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Article: Help headed to South Pole: ; Rescue plane departs to pick up sick doctor
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 24, 2001
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PUNTA ARENAS, Chile - A plane took off today to rescue a sick
American doctor at the South Pole, hours after a New Zealand air
force plane retrieved 11 American staffers from a research station
on the other side of Antarctica. "They're off," said Valerie
Carroll, a spokeswoman for Raytheon Polar Services, after the plane
departed at 10:34 a.m. from Rothera base on the Antarctic peninsula.
The departure came after a two-day delay forced by blowing snow
and low visibility, postponing efforts to reach Dr. Ronald S.
Shemenski at the Amundsen Scott-South Pole station in Antarctica.
Shemenski recently suffered a gall bladder attack and has been
diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening ...