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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Rescuers in two helicopters on Friday reached three Australian air crew who have been stranded for a week with their damaged plane in Antarctica, authorities said Friday.
Two male pilots and a female crew member have been stuck in temperatures as low as -25 degrees Celsius (-77 Fahrenheit) above an ice shelf more than 600 kilometers (400 nautical miles) southwest of Australia's Davis Station since Jan. 5, the government's Australian Antarctic Division said in a statement.
The crew were retrieving a U.S. weather balloon near the Amery Ice Shelf when they damaged the landing skis of their twin-propellor CASA 212-400 aircraft.
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