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Accident In Antarctica

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The Flight Engineer's Guide to Antarctica

Only the flight engineer had been on this flight before. Captain Collins and first officer Cassin attended a flight briefing 19 days before the flight. The minimum instrument meteorological conditions altitude was 16,000 feet. And once they passed overhead at McMurdo, the minimum altitude was 6,000 feet,. providing the conditions were better than a certain criteria that would allow them to fly that low.

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