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Medical flight arrives in Antarctica for sick man (AP)

September 13th, 2010

A NASA image of Antartica. An Antarctic blizzard was hampering plans to evacuate a critically ill American from the US base at McMurdo Sound to New Zealand, officials said Monday.(AFP/NASA/USGS/File)AP - A medical evacuation flight from New Zealand landed in Antarctica on Tuesday to evacuate an American worker in a serious medical condition, after blizzard conditions eased.


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