Icelandic airline crew lands the first Boeing 757 passenger jet in history on the Ant

Comhrá

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/icelandic-airline-crew-lands-first-boeing-757-passenger-jet-history-antarctic-ice-sheet

First passenger jet to land in Antarctica An all-Icelandic crew landed the first Icelandic plane and the first Boeing 757 passenger jet in Antarctica. Photo/Ágúst Hákonarson

Shannon757

That must have been a long flight.

LXFlyer

It flew from Punta Arenas in Chile.

Video here but the commentary is all in Icelandic!
http://www.visir.is/her-sest-thota-loftleida-lenda-a-sudurskautinu/article/2015151128839

The video mentions that Icelandair have visited seven continents this year:
Australia, Papua New Guinea (Asia), Sierra Leone (Africa), Europe, North America, South America and Antartica - not bad!!

Private air landed their 737 there a few years ago, so not the 1st passenger jet, New Zealand Air Force landed their 757 there regularly.

Plus the regular transport flight is a passenger A319, inaccurate article that has actually been edited a few times so far because initially it said it was the first Boeing then first Boeing 757.

Pat Dunne

Deleted User wrote: »

Private air landed their 737 there a few years ago, so not the 1st passenger jet, New Zealand Air Force landed their 757 there regularly.

Plus the regular transport flight is a passenger A319, inaccurate article that has actually been edited a few times so far because initially it said it was the first Boeing then first Boeing 757.

Very good, never let the truth get in the way of a marketing spiel.

martinsvi

lxflyer wrote: »

It flew from Punta Arenas in Chile.

Video here but the commentary is all in Icelandic!
http://www.visir.is/her-sest-thota-loftleida-lenda-a-sudurskautinu/article/2015151128839

The video mentions that Icelandair have visited seven continents this year:
Australia, Papua New Guinea (Asia), Sierra Leone (Africa), Europe, North America, South America and Antartica - not bad!!

Papua New Guinea is in Oceania not Asia, so that would be six continents

Fred Swanson

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martinsvi

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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when I went to school, they called it "Australia and Oceania".. that was a continent. Now they call it "Australia" and Oceania is just a wider region that covers bits and pieces from Australia, Asia and Americas.. anywho, Papua New Guinea belongs to Australia (continent) according to wikipedia

Tenger

What happened to the term "Australasia"?

martinsvi

Tenger wrote: »

What happened to the term "Australasia"?

got consolidated.. we can no longer afford it. Damn austerity