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Article: Plane swoops in to rescue U.S. doctor at South Pole Woman had been stranded there for months with lump in her breast
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1999
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A U.S. military plane took off safely from the South Pole today,
rescuing an American doctor who had been stranded there for five
months with a lump in her breast.
The plane, an LC-130 Hercules from the New York Air National
Guard's 109th Airlift Wing, left the Antarctic coast and took roughly
three hours to reach the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station,
a dome in the polar snow and ice that houses 41 researchers from the
U.S. National Science Foundation.
After the plane landed safely on a runway carved out of ice, Jerri
Nielsen, 47, was helped aboard and a replacement doctor was left
behind before the plane took off again.
"The passenger exchange took just 22 minutes," ...