By CTV News Staff, June 22, 2016
A Canadian plane has left the South Pole with a sick U.S. worker on board, partially-completing a daring mid-winter evacuation mission from an isolated research station.
The U.S. National Science Foundation said on Facebook that the Canadian Twin Otter turboprop plane left the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the ailing worker on Wednesday morning.
NSF spokesperson Peter West told The Associated Press that at least one patient was aboard, but it could be two.
