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SIA plane headed for Azerbaijan to pick up stranded passengers
2014-01-06 16:31:17| Airlines - Topix.net
A replacement Singapore Airlines aircraft is on its way from Singapore to Baku, Azerbaijan, to pick up passengers and cabin crew who are stranded at the airport there.
Midway Southwest Airlines passengers still stranded after Chicago weather cancelations, tarmac delays
2014-01-05 01:20:01| Airlines - Topix.net
It is a cold, hard reality for the Rocca family. After holiday vacation to Cancun, they returned to frigid Chicago to find their connecting flight home to Omaha was cancelled.
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Antarctic rescue: all 52 ship passengers airlifted safety
2014-01-03 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: All 52 passengers, including tourists, scientists and journalists, on board a ship trapped in Antarctica have been rescued, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) has confirmed. The Akademik Shokalskiy became stuck in the ice on Christmas Eve and two icebreakers, the Aurora Australis and Chinese vessel Xue Long, have been trying in vain to reach it. On Thursday afternoon a helicopter sent from the Xue Long landed next to the ship and began evacuating passengers, dropping them on sea...
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Trapped ship passengers set to ring in New Year in Antarctic ice
2013-12-31 04:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Passengers and crew aboard a Russian ship trapped for eight days in ice off Antarctica planned to ring in the New Year with dinner, drinks and song as they waited for a break in a blizzard to allow a Chinese helicopter to rescue them. But they can't party too hard because the rescue could come at any minute. The Akademik Shokalskiy, trapped since December 24 about 100 nautical miles east of a French Antarctic station, Dumont D'Urville, and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania, welcomes...
Antarctic passengers ponder logistics of air rescue as second icebreaker closes in
2013-12-29 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sunday began as the days now always begin on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with a briefing for the passengers on the status of the rescue effort. The crew and expedition leaders had been poring over weather and ice forecasts and speaking with maritime rescue agencies and other ships' captains since the early morning. At 10am they decided it was time to warn the rest of the passengers to steel themselves for the extreme-case scenario if the icebreakers could not get us out within the next 48 hours:...
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